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"A magnificent guided tour through mankind's architecture....This splendid book is that rara avis, a treat for any reader and a first-rate textbook on the subject."--The New York Times Book Review
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When the late Spiro Kostof's A History of Architecture appeared in 1985, it was universally hailed as a masterpiece--one of the finest books on architecture ever written. Now, updated and expanded, this classic reference continues to bring to readers the full array of civilization's architectural achievements.
Insightful, engagingly written and graced with close to a thousand superb illustrations, the 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. The scope of the book is astonishing. Kostof examines a surprisingly wide variety of man-made structures: prehistoric huts and the TVA, the pyramids of Giza and the Rome railway station, the ziggurat and the department store. Kostof considered every building worthy of attention, every structure a potential source of insight, whether it be 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.
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Praise for the previous edition:
"A magnificent guided tour through mankind's architecture....This splendid book is that rara avis, a treat for any reader and a first-rate textbook on the subject."--The New York Times Book Review
Product Description
When the late Spiro Kostof's A History of Architecture appeared in 1985, it was universally hailed as a masterpiece--one of the finest books on architecture ever written. Now, updated and expanded, this classic reference continues to bring to readers the full array of civilization's architectural achievements.
Insightful, engagingly written and graced with close to a thousand superb illustrations, the 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. The scope of the book is astonishing. Kostof examines a surprisingly wide variety of man-made structures: prehistoric huts and the TVA, the pyramids of Giza and the Rome railway station, the ziggurat and the department store. Kostof considered every building worthy of attention, every structure a potential source of insight, whether it be 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.
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vaulted style, general site plan, palatine church, nave elevation, inner colonnade, clerestory lighting, nave piers, facade plane, clustered piers, transept arms, villa rustica, hypostyle hall, cyclopean masonry, central tract, ground storey, reconstruction drawing, nave arcades, radiating chapels, cathedral complex Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Middle Ages, Hagia Sophia, Asia Minor, United States, Further Reading, New England, Bronze Age, New Kingdom, Grand Canal, New Haven, Mexico City, Golden House, Palazzo Vecchio, Shingle Style, World War, Lower Egypt, University of California Press, Upper Egypt, Yale University Press, British Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright, Near East, Holy Sepulchre, Maria Maggiore New!
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A history of architecture is both less and more than a grand tour. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vaulted style, general site plan, palatine church, nave elevation, inner colonnade, clerestory lighting, nave piers, facade plane, clustered piers, transept arms, villa rustica, hypostyle hall, cyclopean masonry, central tract, ground storey, reconstruction drawing, nave arcades, radiating chapels, cathedral complex Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Middle Ages, Hagia Sophia, Asia Minor, United States, Further Reading, New England, Bronze Age, New Kingdom, Grand Canal, New Haven, Mexico City, Golden House, Palazzo Vecchio, Shingle Style, World War, Lower Egypt, University of California Press, Upper Egypt, Yale University Press, British Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright, Near East, Holy Sepulchre, Maria Maggiore New!
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