A history of architecture : settings and rituals /

Kostof, Spiro,

A history of architecture : settings and rituals / Spiro Kostof ; revisions by Greg Castillo ; original drawings by Richard Tobias. - Second edition / Revisions by Greg Castillo. - 792 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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, 1100-1300 -- 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, 1800-1850 -- The American Experience -- Victorian Environments -- The Trials of Modernism -- Architecture and the State: Interwar Years -- The Ends of Modernism -- Designing the Fin-De-Siecle. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29.

0195083784 9780195083781

94038787


Architecture--History

NA200. / K65 1995

720.9

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