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A history of architecture : settings and rituals / created by Spiro Kostof

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: International second editionDescription: 792 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780195399837
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NA200 KOS
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, 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
Summary: "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
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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

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