Architecture you and me - the diary of a development

Cambridge, Massachusetts/London: Harvard University Press/Oxfurd University Press, 1958. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Grey hardcover with title in silver on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers, as well as some light sunning to top edge of front cover, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, although quite shelfworn. Not price-clipped. 221pp. 70 b/w photographic illustrations and several b/w line illustrations within text. In this book, the Swiss architectural critic Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968) author of "Space, Time and Architecture" gives an insight into the problems facing contemporary architecture and urban design at the time of publication in 1958. In a "diary" of the development of the contemporary movement, he assembles a number of articles and lectures written over the years since 1935, some never published before, others only in German..