The Architect,9780520226043

The Architect

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780520226043
ISBN10: 0520226046
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-12-01
Publisher(s): Univ of California Pr
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Summary

The Architect traces the role of the profession across the centuries and in different cultures, showing the architect both as designer and as mediator between the client and the builder.

Author Biography

Spiro Kostof (1936-1991) was Professor of Architectural History at the University of California, Berkeley Dana Cuff is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Dana Cuff
Preface xvii
The Practice of Architecture in the Ancient World: Egypt and Greece
3(25)
Spiro Kostof
Roman Architects
28(31)
William L. Macdonald
The Architect in the Middle Ages, East and West
59(37)
Spiro Kostof
The Emergence of the Italian Architect during the Fifteenth Century
96(28)
Leopold D. Ettlinger
The New Professionalism in the Renaissance
124(37)
Catherine Wilkinson
The Royal Building Administration in France from Charles V to Louis XIV
161(19)
Myra Nan Rosenfeld
The Rise of the Professional Architect in England
180(29)
John Wilton-Ely
The Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Architectural Profession in the United States: The Case of John Galen Howard
209(29)
Joan Draper
Architectural Education in the Thirties and Seventies: a Personal View
238(42)
Joseph Esherick
On the Fringe of the Profession: Women in American Architecture
280(29)
Gwendolyn Wright
Architectural Practice in America, 1865-1965---Ideal and Reality
309(36)
Bernard Michael Boyle
Epilogue 345(14)
Dana Cuff
List of Illustrations 359(4)
Notes on Contributors 363(2)
Index 365

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