Object Details
- Description
- Book jacket design for Raum, Zeit, Architektur (Space, Time, Architecture), by S. Giedion, published by Otto Maier. Cover features photographic image of a contemporary highway system in grey, outlined in blue. The system is superimposed over an old brown and white landscape design drawing. Title appears in navy letters at top, with author's name directly below. Title and author's name also appear in navy on the spine.
- 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
- Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg, Germany
- 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 glossy white paper
- Dimensions
- 35 × 42.1 cm (13 3/4 × 16 9/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Book cover
- Type
- Book cover
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