A History of Architecture

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Spiro Kostof and Greg Castillo

Format: Book
Pages: 815
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: Oct 1995
Stock Code: 245
Binding: Paperback

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No mere survey of famous buildings, A History of Architecture examines an inclusive spectrum of manmade structures, from Stone Age antiquity to Post-Modernism: prehistoric huts and the TVA, the pyramids at Giza and the Rome railway station, the ziggurat and the department store. 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.This edition of the late Spiro Kostofs monumental work on this history of the built environment has been updated by Greg Castillo, Kostofs research assistant and literary executor. The second edition features a new concluding chapter based on Professor Kostofs last lecture notes, Designing the Fin-de-Siecle, as well as a new 16-page section of colour photographs. Many of the original line drawings by Richard Tobias, as well as some fifty photographs, have also been updated or replaced, for improved clarity.