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A history of architecture : settings and rituals
- Title
- A history of architecture : settings and rituals / Spiro Kostof ; original drawings by Richard Tobias.
- Author
- Kostof, Spiro.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
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- Additional Authors
- Castillo, Greg.
- Description
- 792 pages : illustrations; 29 cm
- Summary
- No mere survey of famous buildings, Kostof's History examines an inclusive spectrum of manmade structures: prehistoric huts and the TVA, the pyramids at Giza and the Rome railway station, the ziggurat and the department store.
- Indeed, Kostof considered every building worthy of attention, every structure or shelter a potential source of insight, whether it be the prehistoric hunting camps at Terra Amata, or the caves at Lascaux with their magnificent paintings, or a twenty-story hotel on the Las Vegas strip. The Second Edition features a new concluding chapter, "Designing the Fin-de-Siecle," based on Kostof's last lecture notes and prepared by Castillo, as well as an all-new sixteen-page color section.
- Many of the original line drawings by Richard Tobias, as well as some fifty photographs, have also been updated or replaced, for improved clarity.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes and index.
- Contents
- 1. The Study of What We Built -- 2. The Cave and the Sky: Stone Age Europe -- 3. The Rise of the City: Architecture in Western Asia -- 4. The Architecture of Ancient Egypt -- 5. Bronze Age Cities: The Aegean and Asia Minor -- 6. The Greek Temple and "Barbarian" Alternatives -- 7. Polis and Akropolis -- 8. The Hellenistic Realm -- 9. Rome: Caput Mundi -- 10. The World at Large: Roman Concurrences -- 11. The Triumph of Christ -- 12. The Mediterranean in the Early Middle Ages -- 13. The Birth of Nations: Europe After Charles -- 14. The French Manner -- 15. The Urbanization of Europe, 1100-1300 -- 16. Edges of Medievalism -- 17. The Renaissance: Ideal and Fad -- 18. Spain and the New World -- 19. Istanbul and Venice -- 20. The Popes as Planners: Rome, 1450-1650 -- 21. Absolutism and Bourgeoisie: European Architecture, 1600-1750 -- 22. Architecture for a New World -- 23. Architectural Art and the Landscape of Industry, 1800-1850 -- 24. The American Experience --
- 25. Victorian Environments -- 26. The Trials of Modernism -- 27. Architecture and the State: Interwar Years -- 28. The Ends of Modernism -- 29. Designing the Fin-De-Siecle.
- ISBN
- 0195083784
- LCCN
- 94038787
- OCLC
- 31291112
- ocm31291112
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries