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A history of architecture : settings and rituals
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ISBN: 0195034732 Year: 1985 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press,

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Ten years in the making, A History of Architecture ranges from the first prehistoric environments on record to the most recent examples of architectural and urban design. A landmark work of impressive scope, the book is enhanced by 800 halftone iliustra tions and 150 drawings especially prepared by architect Richard Tobias. Spiro Kostof has written the book in the conviction that "everything built is worth studying." His range of study thus includes not only the religious, governmental, and upper-class monuments around which archi- tectural history has usually been written but also the diversity of ordinary domestic, rural, and urban buildings and landscapes that surround them. Moreover, he evaluates Western achievement in the context of con- temporary cultures elsewhere. Thus he discusses the high points of imperial Rome along with Buddhist stupas and Han palaces, compares medieval Florence with medieval Cairo, and introduces Inca and Aztec cities as the Spanish conquistadores would have seen them. The author's premise is that buildings are conditioned by the social, economic, and political frame of their time; in this sense, Kostof concludes, the history of architecture can be considered an aspect of the history of human institutions. "Architecture, in the end," he writes, "is nothing less than the gift of making places for some human purpose."


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Cambridge architecture.
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ISBN: 0862940508 0862940591 Year: 1985 Publisher: London Trefoil

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The Faber guide to twentieth-century architecture : Britain and northern Europe
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ISBN: 0571135552 0571135560 Year: 1985 Publisher: London Faber And Faber


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Opus caementitium : Bautechnik der Römer.
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ISBN: 376400200X 9783764002008 Year: 1985 Publisher: Düsseldorf Beton


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Bruxelles art nouveau in Brussels
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ISBN: 2871430098 Year: 1985 Publisher: Bruxelles Archives d'architecture moderne

Gothic architecture
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ISBN: 0847804739 9780847804733 Year: 1985 Publisher: New York Rizzoli

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A study of the architectural style that dominated European buildings for more than four hundred years examines the constructional and aesthetic characteristics of the most magnificent creations.


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The history & design of the Australian house
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ISBN: 0195544358 Year: 1985 Publisher: Melbourne Oxford New York Oxford University Press


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Künstlerhäuser von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart
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ISBN: 3791307126 Year: 1985 Publisher: Zürich Waser

Key buildings of the twentieth century : volume 1 : houses 1900-1944
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ISBN: 0851398944 9780851398945 Year: 1985 Publisher: London The Architectural Press

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Présentation avec plans, coupes et photos d'une cinquantaire de maisons parmi les plus connues, construites entre 1900 et 1944, avec les architectes Edwin Luytens (Homewood), Frank Lloyd Wright (Robie House ; Falling Water ; Usonian House), Josef Hoffmann (Palais Stoclet), Hector Guimard (Hôtel Guimard), Gunnar Asplund (Villa Snellman), Rudolf Schindler (Schindler & Chase Houses), JJP Oud, Bijvoet & Duiker (House at Aalsmeer), Auguste Perret (House at Versailles), Gerrit Rietveld (Schröder-Schräder House), Le Corbusier (Mother's House ; Ternisien House ; Villa Stein ; Villa Savoie), Walter Gropius (Double House ; Dessau), Richard neutra (Health House), L. De Koninck (Villa Lenglet), Konstantin Melnikov (Own House), Mart Stam (Houses at Weissenhof), Luckhardt Brothers (House at Rupenhorn), Mies van der Rohe (Lange House ; Tugendhat House), Lois Welzenbacher (Schulz House), Peter Behrens (Berlin-Schlachtensee), Erich Mendelsohn (Own House), Adolf Loos (Müller House), Pierre Chareau & Bernard Bijvoet (Maison de Verre), Amyas Connell (new Farm), Hogo Häring (Courtyard House Project), José Luis Sert (Galobart House), Hans Scharoun (SchmunkeHouse), Willaim Lescaze (Own House), Kocher & Frey (Aluminaire House ; Harrison House), Wells Coates (Studio), Figini & Pollini (House in Milan), Berthold Lubetkin (House at whipsnade), Giuseppe Terragni (Villa Bianca), Serge Chermayeff (Bentley Wood), Connell Ward & Lucas (66 Frognal), Ernö Goldfinger (Willow Road), Denys Lasdun (Newton Road), Marcel Breuer & Walter Gropius (Chamberlain Cottage), Oscar Niemeyer (Own House), Amancio Williams (Country House)

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