Spiro Kostof's Books

The book is about the universal phenomenon of citymaking seen in a historical perspective - how and why cities took the shape they did. It focuses on a number of themes - organic patterns, the grid, the city as a diagram, the grand manner, and the skyline - and moves through time and place to interpret the hidden order inscribed in urban patterns.

How did architects get to be architects in any given period in history? How were they trained? How did they find their clients and communicate with them? What did society think of them?. Spiro Kostof's The Architect, a collection of essays by historians and architects, explores these and other intriguing questions about the profession of architecture. The first book in more than fifty years to survey the profession from its beginnings in ancient Egypt to the modern day, it is the most complete synthesis to date of our knowledge of how the architect's profession developed. Included are a major study of the Beaux-Arts, a vivid memoir by the distinguished architect Josephy Esherick, and an excellent chapter on women which demostrates how the ethic of professionalism has contributed to the exploitation of women in this as in many other professions. The Architect places the current dilemma about the architect's role in society in historical perspective and offers a good overview of the development of one of the world's oldest professions.

This is the first urban history of Rome to span its entire three-thousand-year history. It examines the processes by which Rome's leaders have shaped its urban fabric by organizing space, planning infrastructure, designing ritual, controlling populations, and exploiting Rome's standing as a seat of global power and a religious capital.

Spiro Kostof pioneered a sweeping, unified narrative of architecture, based on its role in everyday life and society. New lead author Richard Ingersoll makes Kostof's highly-respected prose much more accessible, the coverage more global and flexible, social and cultural themes more obvious in section openers and boxes, and the diagrams bolder and clearer.

A history of the elements of cities traces the development of such features as streets, public places, urban divisions, and the frontiers of city and countryside, discussing the effect of natural disasters, war, and redevelopment on cities while offering insight into how to apply contemporary solutions to urban restoration efforts. Reprint.

Book's by Spiro Kostof

The City Shaped

The City Shaped

The Architect : Chapters in the History of the Profession

The Architect : Chapters in the History of the Profession

Rome

Rome

World Architecture

World Architecture

The City Assembled

The City Assembled

Rome

Rome

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