A history of architecture is both less and more than a grand tour.
An edition of A history of architecture
(1985)
A history of architecture
settings and rituals
2nd ed. / revisions by Greg Castillo.
by Spiro Kostof
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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.
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Table of Contents
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
The Greek temple and "barbarian" alternatives
Polis and Akropolis
The Hellenistic realm
Rome : caput mundi
The world at large : Roman concurrences
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 1450-1650
Absolutism and bourgeoisie : European architecture 1600-1750
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
The ends of modernism
Designing the fin-de-siècle.
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