Alleen Vandaag A history of architecture – Spiro Kostof

When the late Spiro Kostof’s A History of Architecture appeared in 1985, it was universally hailed as a masterpiece–one of the finest books on architecture ever written. The New York Times Book Review, in a front cover review, called it “a magnificent guided tour through mankind’s architecture,” and The San Francisco Chronicle wrote that “Kostof…has enthralled a generation of students…. Now he has done the same thing for the public at large, in an extraordinary book that is a new kind of architectural …