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A history of architecture : settings and rituals Cave & Sky: Stone Age Europe; Rise of the city: architecture in Western Asia; Architecture of ancient Egypt; Bronze Age cities: Aegean & Asia Minor; Greek temple & "barbarian" alternatives; Polis & Akropolis; 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; French manner; Urbanization of Europe; Edges of medievalism; Renaissance: ideal & fad; Spain & the New World; Istanbul & Venice; Popes as planners: Rome 1450-1650; Absolutism & bourgeoisie: European architecture 1600-1750; Architecture for a new world; Architectural art & the landscape of industry
1995006319New York : Oxford University Press 1995 1995. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. 792 p. : illustrated some in color. ; 29 cm. ; ISBN: 0195083792 pbk.; 9780195083798 pbk.; LCCN: 94-38787 ; LC: NA200; Dewey: 720/.9 ; OCLC: 31291112 ; stiff paper wrappers ; ".universally hailed as a masterpiece--one of the finest books on architecture ever written" ; "No mere survey of famous buildings Kostof's History examines an inclusive spectrum of man-made 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." ; 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. ; thick volume ; a scuff or two else FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Oxford University Press, 1995 paperback
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