A history of architecture : settings and rituals /
"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,...
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New York :
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1995.
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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.