Title & Author:

The Architect : chapters in the history of the profession / edited by Spiro Kostof.

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1977.

Description:

x, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The practice of architecture in the ancient world : Egypt and Greece / Spiro Kostof -- Roman architects / William L. MacDonald -- The architect in the Middle Ages, east and west / Spiro Kostof -- The emergence of the Italian architect during the fifteenth century / Leopold D. Ettlinger -- The new professionalism in the Renaissance / Catherine Wilkinson -- The royal building administration in France from Charles V to Louis XIV / Myra Nan Rosenfeld -- The rise of the professional architect in England / John Wilton-Ely -- The Ecole des Beaux-arts and the architectural profession in the United States : the case of John Galen Howard / Joan Draper -- Architectural education in the thirties and seventies : a personal view / Joseph Esherick -- On the fringe of the profession : women in American architecture / Gwendolyn Wright -- Architectural practice in America, 1865-1965- ideal and reality / Bernard Michael Boyle.

Summary:

With the architectural profession in a state of crisis over the nature - and even the necessity - of its role in society, this book puts the debate into a historical perspective.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0195020677
9780195020670
0195040449
9780195040449

Subject:

Architecture Vocational guidance.
Architecture Orientation professionnelle.
Architekt
Beruf
Architecten.
Architectural profession to 1976

Added entries:

Kostof, Spiro.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 65635
Call No.: NA1995.A73 1977
Status: Available