* New final chapter * Two revised chapters This second edition of the late Spiro Kostof's major work on the history of the built environment (first published in 1985) has been updated with a concluding chapter, 'Designing the Fin-de-Siecle'. Based on Professor Kostof's last lecture notes, the chapter was prepared by Greg Castillo, his research ...
Cities are among the most enduring and remarkable of human artefacts. This study explains how and why cities took the shape they did. Professor Kostof focuses on a number of themes - organic patterns, the grid, the city as diagram, the grand manner and the skyline - and interprets the hidden order of urban patterns. Photographs, historical views ...
With the architectural profession in a state of crisis over the nature - and even the necessity - of its role in society, this book puts the debate into an historical perspective. The Architect is the first book in English in fifty years to survey the profession's history from its beginnings in ancient Egypt to the present. Without claiming to ...
Spiro Kostof, the renowned architectural historian and chronicler of urban form, presents a universal history of the elements of cities: streets, public places, urban divisions, and the borders of city and countryside. This is both an independent study and a companion volume to Professor Kostof's book "The City Shaped" which dealt with cities as ...
Cappadocia, a province in central Turkey, offers the traveler a startling rockscape whose cones, pleats, and folds conceal hundreds of monasteries and churches carved from the soft, porous "tuff" and used by Christian communities over nearly two millennia for shelter, burial, and sanctuary. This region in the Turkish hinterland is recognized as ...
This book is an overview of all features of America's built environment, both the monumental and the commonplace, since colonial times. It is also announced in the Oxford General Books catalogue for Autumn 1987.
Located in central Turkey, Cappodocia boasts hundreds of monasteries and churches where Christian communities lived and prayed for the greater part of two millenia. This general introduction to the rockcut architecture of the region discusses the nature and historical background of monasticism in Cappodocia, and contains illuminating plans and ...
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Spiro Kostof, Berkeley. University Art Museum University of California, Gabinetto fotografico nazionale, Santa Barbara. Art Gallery University of California, Hayden Gallery
Description: Zurich: Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 1992. Numerous b/w and full color photographs. 351 pp. Text in German. Hardcover. Square 4to. Red paper covered boards. Head, heel and corners bumped; small dent to front board. Else, a clean copy. Very good+/Very good+. read more
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