The Architect

by Kostof, Spiro

• ISBN13: 9780520226043
• ISBN10: 0520226046
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

The Architect traces the role of the profession across the centuries and in different cultures, showing the architect both as designer and as mediator between the client and the builder.

Author Biography

Spiro Kostof (1936-1991) was Professor of Architectural History at the University of California, Berkeley Dana Cuff is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Dana Cuff
Preface	xvii
The Practice of Architecture in the Ancient World: Egypt and Greece	3	(25)
Spiro Kostof
Roman Architects	28	(31)
William L. Macdonald
The Architect in the Middle Ages, East and West	59	(37)
Spiro Kostof
The Emergence of the Italian Architect during the Fifteenth Century	96	(28)
Leopold D. Ettlinger
The New Professionalism in the Renaissance	124	(37)
Catherine Wilkinson
The Royal Building Administration in France from Charles V to Louis XIV	161	(19)
Myra Nan Rosenfeld
The Rise of the Professional Architect in England	180	(29)
John Wilton-Ely
The Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Architectural Profession in the United States: The Case of John Galen Howard	209	(29)
Joan Draper
Architectural Education in the Thirties and Seventies: a Personal View	238	(42)
Joseph Esherick
On the Fringe of the Profession: Women in American Architecture	280	(29)
Gwendolyn Wright
Architectural Practice in America, 1865-1965---Ideal and Reality	309	(36)
Bernard Michael Boyle
Epilogue	345	(14)
Dana Cuff
List of Illustrations	359	(4)
Notes on Contributors	363	(2)
Index	365