Mechanization Takes Command : A contribution to anonymous history
by Giedion, Sigfried
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- Hardcover
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- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
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About This Item
Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author. Red cloth with silver lettering. A very good copy but sunned on the spine. Ownership inscription of Mark Hartland Thomas( Architect also Chief Industrial Officer at the Council of Industrial Design. Awarded OBE in recognition of the important contribution he made to the success of the Festival of Britain exhibition ) on front free endpaper. A slip of paper is pasted to the same leaf inscribed by the author 'Hartland Thomas with thanks for his constant friendliness, Zurich, June 1948, Giedion'. xiv + 743 pages, profusely illustrated, index. Approx. size 10" x 7". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Architecture; Inscribed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 28758. .
Synopsis
Sigfried Giedion (1888–1968) was born in Switzerland. He taught at the Federal Institute of Technology and was also Mellon Lecturer at the Washington National Gallery and Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer at Harvard University. His books include Space, Time and Architecture ; The Eternal Present : The Beginnings of Art ; and The Beginnings of Architecture. Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, and is the architecture critic for Slate . His book on American building, Last Harvest , was published in 2007.
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- Bookseller
- Steve Liddle
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28758
- Title
- Mechanization Takes Command : A contribution to anonymous history
- Author
- Giedion, Sigfried
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ. Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- BZDB28 industrial assembly lines design automation Architecture; Mechanization Takes Command A contribution to anonymous history Giedion Sigfried
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- Architecture;
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Steve Liddle
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Bristol, Avon
About Steve Liddle
Full time bookseller since 1982. Bookshops in Bristol and Bath ( as Patterson & Liddle )1982- 2006. Member ABA ILAB PBFA. Regular exhibitor at major UK bookfairs.
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