ABSTRACT
Architectural critic and historian Siegfried Giedion published Space, Time and Architecture in 1941. The consequences of the growing fascination with space and space-oriented rhetoric are two-fold: it distracts from and perhaps inhibits appreciation of time; as a long-term consequence, time-based aspects of Quality become incomprehensible; and it leads to a diminishment of the value accorded to architecture of earlier eras. From the Classical to the Information Age people envision a radical shift as having occurred, particularly across the period opening with the Industrial Revolution and closing with World War II, and attribute this to varying precipitous events. Broadly considered, the modern fetishization of technology is merely an evolutionary branch of architecture's growing fascination with responsibility. Though recent architectural discourse appears to differ from the Classical and the mythical in terms of a relatively new appreciation of "function" and "technology", these terms function and technology are merely recent descriptors for very old notions of duty and utility.
