Sigfried Giedion, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sigfried Giedion

Swiss architectural historian (1888-1968)

Date of Birth: 14-Apr-1888

Place of Birth: Prague, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 09-Apr-1968

Profession: art historian, architectural historian

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Sigfried Giedion (14 April 1888 in Prague – 10 April 1968 in Zürich) (sometimes misspelled Siegfried Giedion) was a Bohemian-born Swiss historian and critic of architecture. His ideas and books, Space, Time and Architecture, and Mechanization Takes Command, had an important conceptual influence on the members of the Independent Group at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in the 1950s.Giedion was a pupil of Heinrich Wölfflin.
He was the first secretary-general of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne.
He also taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. In Space, Time & Architecture, Giedion wrote an influential standard history of modern architecture, while Mechanization Takes Command established a new kind of historiography. He married Carola Giedion-Welcker, who created a circle of avante-garde artists in Switzerland, which included Hans Arp and Aldo van Eyck.
His daughter Verena married the architect Paffard Keatinge-Clay.