Object Details
- Description
- Bifoliate book cover design for Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition by S. Giedion, published by Harvard University Press. Cover features photographic image of a contemporary highway system in blue superimposed over a red landscape design drawing. Title at top and center with author's name in between, all printed in navy blue. Verso: Description of book's contents, printed in red and navy blue. Interior pages, also printed in navy blue, describe the scope of the book and feature two blue photographic images of architectural site views: Landsdowne Crescent, Bath, 1794 and Le Corbusier, Scheme for skyscrapers in Algiers, 1931.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Herbert Bayer, (American, born Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985)
- Author
- S. Giedion, Swiss, b. Czech Republic, 1888–1968
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Subject
- Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris), Swiss, active France, 1887–1965
- Date
- 1941
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 24.8 × 17.6 cm (9 3/4 × 6 15/16 in.)
- Open: 24.8 × 31.1 cm (9 3/4 × 12 1/4 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Book cover
- Type
- Book cover
