Title & Author:

The architect : chapters in the history of the profession / edited by Spiro Kostof ; foreword and epilogue by Dana Cuff.

Edition:

First California paperback printing 2000

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000.

Description:

xx, 385 pages : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 23 cm

Notes:
Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1977.
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:

The Architect was the first book in fifty years to survey the role of the profession from its beginnings in ancient Egypt to the present. Without claiming to cover every period in every country, it is nonetheless the most complete synthesis available of what is known about one of the oldest professions in the world. In a new foreword and epilogue, Dana Cuff considers the continuing relevance of the book and evaluates changes in architectural practice and the profession since 1965, most particularly digital technology, globalization, and environmental concerns. -- from back cover.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520226046 (alk. paper)
9780520226043 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Vocational guidance.
Architecture Orientation professionnelle.
Architecten.
Beroepen.

Form/genre:

Informational works.
Documents d'information.

Added entries:

Kostof, Spiro, editor.
Cuff, Dana, 1953- writer of foreword, writer of epilogue.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 216353
Call No.: NA1995 .A73 2000
Status: Available