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No Mere Survey Of Famous Buildings, Kostof's History Examines An Inclusive Spectrum Of Manmade Structures: Prehistoric Huts And The Tva, The Pyramids At Giza And The Rome Railway Station, The Ziggurat And The Department Store. Indeed, Kostof Considered Every Building Worthy Of Attention, Every Structure Or Shelter A Potential Source Of Insight, Whether It Be The 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. The Second Edition Features A New Concluding Chapter, Designing The Fin-de-siecle, Based On Kostof's Last Lecture Notes And Prepared By Castillo, As Well As An All-new Sixteen-page Color Section. Many Of The Original Line Drawings By Richard Tobias, As Well As Some Fifty Photographs, Have Also Been Updated Or Replaced, For Improved Clarity.--jacket. The Study Of What We Built -- The Cave And The Sky : Stone Age Europe -- The Rise Of The City : Architecture In Western Asia -- The Architecture Of Ancient Egypt -- Bronze Age Cities : The Aegean And Asia Minor -- The Greek Temple And Barbarian Alternatives -- Polis And Akropolis -- The Hellenistic Realm -- Rome : Caput Mundi -- The

Author

Kostof, Spiro; Castillo, Greg

Publisher

New York: Oxford University Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195083781

Subjects

Architecture, History, Art

Rating

4 / 5 (438 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14