A history of architecture
Subtitle: settings and rituals
By: Spiro Kostof ; revisions by Greg Castillo ; original drawings by Richard Tobias
Contributors: Castillo, Greg
Edition: 2nd ed. / revisions by Greg Castillo.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 792
ISBN-13: 9780195083781; 9780195083798
Subjects: Bouwkunst; History; Geschichte; História da arquitetura; Architektur; Histoire; Architecture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The study of what we built; title: The cave and the sky : Stone Age Europe; title: The rise of the city : architecture in Western Asia; title: The architecture of ancient Egypt; title: Bronze Age cities : the Aegean and Asia Minor; title: The Greek temple and "barbarian" alternatives; title: Polis and Akropolis; title: The Hellenistic realm; title: Rome : caput mundi; title: The world at large : Roman concurrences; title: The triumph of Christ; title: The Mediterranean in the early Middle Ages; title: The birth of nations : Europe after Charles; title: The French manner; title: The urbanization of Europe; title: Edges of medievalism; title: The Renaissance : ideal and fad; title: Spain and the New World; title: Istanbul and Venice; title: The popes as planners : Rome 1450-1650; title: Absolutism and bourgeoisie : European architecture 1600-1750; title: Architecture for a new world; title: Architectural art and the landscape of industry; title: The American experience; title: Victorian environments; title: The trials of modernism; title: Architecture and the state : interwar years; title: The ends of modernism; title: Designing the fin-de-siècle.