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History of Architecture : Settings and Rituals by Spiro Kostof (1985, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100195034732
ISBN-139780195034738
eBay Product ID (ePID)1376929
Product Key Features
Number of Pages800 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameHistory of Architecture : Settings and Rituals
SubjectLinguistics / General, History / General
Publication Year1985
TypeTextbook
AuthorSpiro Kostof
Subject AreaArchitecture, Language Arts & Disciplines
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight69.9 Oz
Item Length11 in
Item Width9.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN84-025375
Dewey Edition20
TitleLeadingA
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal720/.9
SynopsisThis lavishly-illustrated, landmark book covers architecture and urbanism from Stone Age antiquity to Post-Modernism, from ordinary buildings to monuments. Examining the social, physical, and cultural context of building, Kostof's lucid narrative encompasses both Western and non-Western traditions and includes urban and rural settings as well as ceremonial, residential, and industrial environments., 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.
Illustrated byTobias, Richard
LC Classification NumberNA200.K65 1985
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