History of Architecture Settings and Rituals

Name: History of Architecture Settings and Rituals
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ISBN: 9780195083798

ISBN-10: 0195083792

ISBN-13: 9780195083798

Edition: 2nd 1995 (Revised)

Authors: Spiro Kostof, Gregory Castillo, Richard Tobias

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When the late Spiro Kostof's A History of Architecture appeared in 1985, it was universally hailed as a masterpiece--one of the finest books on architecture ever written. The New York Times Book Review, in a front cover review, called it "a magnificent guided tour through mankind's architecture," and The San Francisco Chronicle wrote that "Kostof...has enthralled a generation of students.... Now he has done the same thing for the public at large, in an extraordinary book that is a new kind of architectural history." This magisterial work has now been revised and expanded by Greg Castillo, Kostof's colleague and literary executor. Insightful, engagingly written, and graced with almost a…

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List price: $129.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/31/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 816
Size: 11.42" wide x 9.21" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 4.488
Language: English



A Place On Earth



The Study of What We Built



The Cave and the Sky: Stone Age Europe



The Rise of the City: Architecture in Western Asia



The Architecture of Ancient Egypt



Bronze Age Cities: The Aegean and Asia Minor



Greek Temple and ""Barbarian"" Alternatives



Polis and Akropolis



The Hellenistic Realm



Rome: Caput Mundi



The World at Large: Roman Concurrences


Measuring Up



The Triumph of Christ



The Mediterranean in the Early Middle Ages



The Birth of Nations: Europe after Charles



The French Manner



The Urbanization of Europe



Edges of Medievalism



The Renaissance: Ideal and Fad



Spain and the New World



Istanbul and Venice



The Popes as Planners: Rome 150-1650



Absolutism and Bourgeoisie: European Architecture 1600-1750


The Search For Self



Architecture for a New World



Architectural Art and the Landscape of Industry



The American Experience



Victorian Environments



The Trials of Modernism



Architecture and the State: Interwar Years



At Peace with the Past: The Last Decades



Designing the Fin-de-Siecle