How long does it take to read Space, Time and Architecture?
the growth of a new tradition.
Sigfried Giedion
Space, Time and Architecture by Sigfried Giedion takes about 14 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 16 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1941. 778 pages, about 213,950 words.
29 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 23 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Sigfried Giedion's Space, Time and Architecture, which Harvard University Press issued in 1941, traces how modern building and city planning took shape. It grew out of lectures delivered at Harvard in 1938 and works as linked essays instead of a broad overview. Giedion examines chosen episodes closely, including neglected corners of the nineteenth century, to show how architecture shares methods with painting, construction, planning and science. His aim is to place the new architectural tradition within the wider culture of its age and of the present.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: City planning, Space perception, Architecture, History, Space (architecture), Architecture, history
