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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195083784
ISBN-13
9780195083781
eBay Product ID (ePID)
73804
Product Key Features
Edition
2
Book Title
History of Architecture : Settings and Rituals
Number of Pages
816 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, History / General
Publication Year
1995
Illustrator
Yes, Tobias, Richard
Features
Revised
Genre
Architecture
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
81.5 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
11.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
94-038787
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
"Very useful!"--Mosette G. Broderich, New York University "[Kostof's] challenging text is ultimately inspiring, richly rewarding, and at times brilliant."-- School Library Journal, From reviews of first edition:'a magnificent guided tour through mankind's architecture' New York Times Book Review, "Very useful!"--Mosette G. Broderich, New York University "[Kostof's] challenging text is ultimately inspiring, richly rewarding, and at times brilliant."--School Library Journal, "[Kostof's] challenging text is ultimately inspiring, richly rewarding,and at times brilliant."--School Library Journal, "Very useful!"--Mosette G. Broderich, New York University"[Kostof's] challenging text is ultimately inspiring, richly rewarding, and at times brilliant."--School Library Journal, "[Kostof's] challenging text is ultimately inspiring, richly rewarding, and at times brilliant."--School Library Journal
Dewey Decimal
720/.9
Table Of Content
A PLACE ON EARTH1. The Study of What We Built2. The Cave and the Sky: Stone Age Europe3. The Rise of the City: Architecture in Western Asia4. The Architecture of Ancient Egypt5. Bronze Age Cities: The Aegean and Asia Minor6. Greek Temple and "Barbarian" Alternatives7. Polis and Akropolis8. The Hellenistic Realm9. Rome: Caput Mundi10. The World at Large: Roman ConcurrencesMEASURING UP11. The Triumph of Christ12. The Mediterranean in the Early Middle Ages13. The Birth of Nations: Europe after Charles14. The French Manner15. The Urbanization of Europe16. Edges of Medievalism17. The Renaissance: Ideal and Fad18. Spain and the New World19. Istanbul and Venice20. The Popes as Planners: Rome 150-165021. Absolutism and Bourgeoisie: European Architecture 1600-1750THE SEARCH FOR SELF22. Architecture for a New World23. Architectural Art and the Landscape of Industry24. The American Experience25. Victorian Environments26. The Trials of Modernism27. Architecture and the State: Interwar Years28. At Peace with the Past: The Last Decades29. Designing the Fin-de-Siecle
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
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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 thousand superb illustrations, the Second Edition of this classic volume offers a sweeping narrative that examines architecture as it reflects the social, economic, and technological systems of human history. The scope of the book is astonishing. No mere survey of famous buildings, Kostof's History examines a surprisingly wide variety 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 16-page color section. Many of the original line drawings by Richard Tobias, as well as some 50 photographs, have also been updated or replaced, for improved clarity. Visually and intellectually stimulating, this book is at once a compelling history and an indispensable reference on all aspects of our built environment. It achieves for architecture what Janson's history accomplished for visual art.", 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 thousand superb illustrations, the Second Edition of this classic volume offers a sweeping narrative that examines architecture as it reflects the social, economic, and technological systems of human history. The scope of the book is astonishing. No mere survey of famous buildings, Kostof's History examines a surprisingly wide variety 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 16-page color section. Many of the original line drawings by Richard Tobias, as well as some 50 photographs, have also been updated or replaced, for improved clarity. Visually and intellectually stimulating, this book is at once a compelling history and an indispensable reference on all aspects of our built environment. It achieves for architecture what Janson's history accomplished for visual art., 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 thousand superb illustrations, the Second Edition of this classic volume offers a sweeping narrative that examines architecture as it reflects the social, economic, and technological systems of human history. The scope of the book is astonishing. No mere survey of famous buildings, Kostof's History examines a surprisingly wide variety 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 Siècle," based on Kostof's last lecture notes and prepared by Castillo, as well as an all-new 16-page color section. Many of the original line drawings by Richard Tobias, as well as some 50 photographs, have also been updated or replaced, for improved clarity. Visually and intellectually stimulating, this book is at once a compelling history and an indispensable reference on all aspects of our built environment. It achieves for architecture what Janson's history accomplished for visual art., 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 thousand superb illustrations, the Second Edition of this classic volume offers a sweeping narrative that examines architecture as it reflects the social, economic, and technological systems of human history. The scope of the book is astonishing. No mere survey of famous buildings, Kostof's History examines a surprisingly wide variety 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 Siècle," based on Kostof's last lecture notes and prepared by Castillo, as well as an all-new 16-page color section. Many of the original line drawings by Richard Tobias, as well as some 50 photographs, have also been updated or replaced, for improved clarity. Visually and intellectually stimulating, this book is at once a compelling history and an indispensable reference on all aspects of our built environment. It achieves for architecture what Janson's history accomplished for visual art.
LC Classification Number
NA200.K65 1995
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