A history of architecture : settings and rituals /
Kostof, Spiro
A history of architecture : settings and rituals / created by Spiro Kostof - International second edition - 792 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 28 cm
Includes 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-siècle
"The International Second Edition of this extraordinary volume offers a sweeping narrative that examines architecture as it reflects the social, economic, and technological aspects of human history"--Back cover
9780195399837
Architecture
Architecture History
History
NA200 KOS
A history of architecture : settings and rituals / created by Spiro Kostof - International second edition - 792 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 28 cm
Includes 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-siècle
"The International Second Edition of this extraordinary volume offers a sweeping narrative that examines architecture as it reflects the social, economic, and technological aspects of human history"--Back cover
9780195399837
Architecture
Architecture History
History
NA200 KOS