Kostof, Spiro. A history of architecture : : settings and rituals / [electronic resource] / Spiro Kostof ; revisions by Greg Castillo ; original drawings by Richard Tobias.. — 2nd ed. / revisions by Greg Castillo.. — New York : : Oxford University Press,, 1995.. — 792 p. : : ill. ; 29 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 world at large : Roman concurrences -- The triumph of Christ -- The Mediterranean in the early Middle Ages -- The birth of nations : Europe after Charles -- The French manner -- The urbanization of Europe -- Edges of medievalism -- The Renaissance : ideal and fad -- Spain and the New World -- Istanbul and Venice -- The popes as planners : Rome 1450-1650 -- Absolutism and bourgeoisie : European architecture 1600-1750 -- Architecture for a new world -- Architectural art and the landscape of industry -- The American experience -- Victorian environments -- The trials of modernism -- Architecture and the state : interwar years -- The ends of modernism -- Designing the fin-de-siècle.