A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE: settings and Rituals
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1995
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Russ States, Oil City, PA, U.S.A.Russ States
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1995, 792pp, illus., maps, some shelfwear to cover, corners bumped, light soiling to pg edges, highlighting to 1st 2 chapters, rest of text is clean & unmarked.
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- Title
- A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE: settings and Rituals
- Author
- Kostof, Spiro
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, New York
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- Good +
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0195083792
- ISBN 13
- 9780195083798
- Illustrator
- Richard Tobias
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
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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