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The History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals

The History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals
By Spiro Kostof

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This second edition of the late Spiro Kostof's major work has been revised and expanded by Greg Castillo, Professor Kostof's research assistant and literary executor. A new concluding chapter has been added and many photographs and drawings throughout the book have been replaced or updated.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #32415 in Books
  • Published on: 1995-08-31
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 816 pages

Editorial Reviews

New York Times Book Review
`a magnificent guided tour through mankind's architecture' (Refers to first edition)

About the Author
Spiro Kostof was the Professor of Architectural History at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include The Architect (OUP 1986), America by Design (OUP 1987), Caves of God (OUP 1989, OPB 1990), The City Shaped (Bulfinch, 1991), The City Assembled (Bulfinch, 1992)

Customer Reviews

Essention Student Book for 1st years5
If possible try and read this the summer before you start a degree course in architecture. Arm yourself with an ER-6000 which is an electronic consise dictionary, which has 99% of all the architecture words, plus all the arty and historic ones you will not have heard of before this book, and tackle this monster.

Pace yourself and try and cover a chapter a day... and if you do this it will still take you a month to read it... and that is reading solid... a chapter is about 3 hours reading... and you will find it hard to cram in more in one day.

This is a bible of a book and arms you will a vast array of knowlegde of history, famous architects, buildings, terms that you will hear over and over in your lectures.

Not to mention the history lectures will be sweet to your ears as they will be just revision.

Believe me... if you start to read this when you start your course, you'll have a job to finish it before Christmas... so dedicate a summer to it.

Essential knowledge for the students that wants to get his foot in the door early.

God bless, S Kostof (R.I.P)

A good all rounder.4
As a student studying Architecture, this is a must have, it is concise and well illistrated.