A History of Architecture Settings and Rituals

by Kostof, Spiro; Castillo, Gregory; Tobias, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780195083798
• ISBN10: 0195083792
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-08-31
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

When the late Spiro Kostof's A History of Architecture first appeared in1985, it was universally hailed as a masterpiece - one of the finest books onarchitecture ever written. Now, updated and expanded, this classic referencecontinues to bring to readers the full array of civilization's architecturalachievements.Insightful, engagingly written and graced with close to a thousand superbillustrations, the Second Edition of this extraordinary volume offers a sweepingnarrative that examines architecture as it reflects the social, economic, andtechnological aspects of human history. Kostof examines a surprisingly widevariety of man-made structures: prehistoric huts and the TVA, the pyramids ofGiza and the Rome railway station, the ziggurat and the department store. Kostofconsidered every building worthy of attention, every structure a potentialsource of insight, whether it be prehistoric hunting camps at Terra Amata, orthe caves at Lascaux with their magnificent paintings, or a twenty-story hotelon the Las Vegas Strip.

Table of Contents

PART ONE A Place on Earth
The Study of What We Built	3	(18)
The History of Architecture	3	(4)
The Total Context of Architecture	7	(14)
The Cave and the Sky: Stone Age Europe	21	(22)
The Beginning	21	(2)
Old Stone Age Architecture	23	(1)
The Cave at Lascaux	23	(3)
New Stone Age Architecture	26	(6)
The Temples of Malta	32	(5)
Stonehenge	37	(6)
The Rise of the City: Architecture In Western Asia	43	(24)
The Urban Revolution	43	(1)
Stirrings of Urban Consciousness	44	(6)
The Cities of Mesopotamia	50	(17)
The Architecture of Ancient Egypt	67	(24)
The Land of Egypt	67	(4)
The Burial of Kings	71	(8)
The Time of the Gods	79	(9)
Survival of the Egyptian Temple	88	(3)
Bronze Age Cities: The Aegean and Asia Minor	91	(24)
Asia Minor	91	(8)
Mycenaeans and Minoans	99	(13)
The Closing of the Bronze Age	112	(3)
The Greek Temple and ``Barbarian'' Alternatives	115	(22)
The Passing of the Bronze Age	115	(2)
The Emergence of Greece	117	(3)
The Greek Temple	120	(17)
Polis and Akropolis	137	(24)
Athens and Her Empire	137	(1)
The Shape of the Polis	138	(8)
Athens---``The Eye of Greece,''	146	(15)
The Hellenistic Realm	161	(30)
The New Order	161	(7)
The Hellenistic Temple	168	(2)
Religious Settings	170	(4)
The Noble Metropolis	174	(17)
Rome: Caput Mundi	191	(26)
Early Roman Architecture	191	(3)
Components of a Roman Town: Pompeii	194	(13)
The Look of Empire: Rome at the Millennium	207	(10)
The World at Large: Roman Concurrences	217	(28)
The Roman Cosmos	217	(2)
Beyond the Empire	219	(6)
The Other Ancient World	225	(8)
A Continent Alone	233	(12)
PART TWO Measuring Up
The Triumph of Christ	245	(24)
The Turning Point: Third-Century Rome	245	(8)
Housing the Kingdom of Heaven	253	(7)
The Primacy of Constantinople	260	(9)
The Mediterranean in the Early Middle Ages	269	(26)
The Decline of the West	269	(5)
Carolingian Restoration	274	(10)
The Empire of Muhammed	284	(11)
The Birth of Nations: Europe After Charles	295	(28)
Europe from Charles to Otto	295	(3)
The Eleventh Century	298	(7)
The Romanesque Church	305	(9)
Italian Counterpoint	314	(9)
The French Manner	323	(26)
The Romanesque and Opus Modernum	323	(10)
Chartres	333	(8)
Gothic Abroad	341	(8)
The Urbanization of Europe, 1100--1300	349	(26)
The City Returns	349	(6)
Bourgeois Architecture, Public and Private	355	(8)
An Urban Contrast: Cario and Florence	363	(12)
Edges of Medievalism	375	(28)
Florence at the Crossroads	375	(1)
The City Center	376	(10)
Europe in the Fourteenth Century	386	(8)
Aging Traditions Abroad	394	(9)
The Renaissance: Ideal and Fad	403	(30)
The First Advance	403	(9)
The Prince and the People: Patronage in Northern Italy	412	(16)
The Italianate Craze	428	(5)
Spain and the New World	433	(20)
The American Scene	433	(9)
The Spanish Scene	442	(11)
Istanbul and Venice	453	(32)
A Turkish Renaissance	454	(14)
The Consummation of Venice	468	(17)
The Popes as Planners: Rome, 1450--1650	485	(26)
Making the City Whole	485	(11)
``A Pasture for the Bodily Senses,''	496	(15)
Absolutism and Bourgeoisie: European Architecture, 1600--1750	511	(36)
The Roman Baroque	511	(16)
France: The Grand Siecle	527	(11)
The Face of Protestantism	538	(9)
PART THREE The Search for Self
Architecture for a New World	547	(24)
Europe in Ferment	547	(6)
A World to Choose From	553	(13)
Form and Reform	566	(5)
Architectural Art and the Landscape Of Industry, 1800--1850	571	(34)
A Matter of Styles	571	(23)
The Iron Age	594	(11)
The American Experience	605	(30)
Colonial Dependence	607	(10)
Architecture for a Nation	617	(12)
Greece for All Seasons	629	(6)
Victorian Environments	635	(34)
The Gilded Age	635	(12)
Victorian America	647	(22)
The Trials of Modernism	669	(26)
Urban Choices	669	(11)
Towards a Twentieth-Century Architecture	680	(15)
Architecture and the State: Interwar Years	695	(26)
The 1920s	695	(12)
The Other Side	707	(10)
The Language of Power	717	(4)
The Ends of Modernism	721	(24)
Reconstruction	721	(3)
Postwar America	724	(21)
Designing the Fin-De-Siecle	745	(18)
Success and Failure	745	(3)
Recovering the Past	748	(15)
Illustration Credits	763	(4)
Glossary	767	(9)
Index	776