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		"Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic." - Roy Blount Jr.

	History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals
	by Spiro Kostof, Greg Castillo, Gregory Castillo, Richard Tobias (Illustrator)

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Product Details

Format: Hardcover, 2nd ed., 816 pages

Edition: 2nd ed.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 0195083784

Release Date: Jan 4, 1993

In Brief
The author seeks not only to present a broad history of architecture from prehistoric caves to modern building styles, "but also the 'whole picture': festivities and rituals that gave the buildings and open areas life, the relationships of patron and architect, the vicissitudes of political and economiclife." (Christ Sci Monit) Index.

From The Publisher
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.

Annotation
"The best one-volume history of western architecture in print, if not the best ever written." Bernard Boyle, Arizona State University

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The Reader's Catalog
An eccentric presentation in terms of styles, literature, and social concerns

1	The Study of What We Built	3
2	The Cave and the Sky: Stone Age Europe	21
3	The Rise of the City: Architecture in Western Asia	43
4	The Architecture of Ancient Egypt	67
5	Bronze Age Cities: The Aegean and Asia Minor	91
6	The Greek Temple and "Barbarian" Alternatives	115
7	Polis and Akropolis	137
8	The Hellenistic Realm	161
9	Rome: Caput Mundi	191
10	The World at Large: Roman Concurrences	217
11	The Triumph of Christ	245
12	The Mediterranean in the Early Middle Ages	269
13	The Birth of Nations: Europe After Charles	295
14	The French Manner	323
15	The Urbanization of Europe, 1100-1300	349
16	Edges of Medievalism	375
17	The Renaissance: Ideal and Fad	403
18	Spain and the New World	433
19	Istanbul and Venice	453
20	The Popes as Planners: Rome, 1450-1650	485
21	Absolutism and Bourgeoisie: European Architecture, 1600-1750	511
22	Architecture for a New World	547
23	Architectural Art and the Landscape of Industry, 1800-1850	571
24	The American Experience	605
25	Victorian Environments	635
26	The Trials of Modernism	669
27	Architecture and the State: Interwar Years	695
28	The Ends of Modernism	721
29	Designing the Fin-De-Siecle	745

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