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Note: A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals book Spiro Kostof. Oxford University Press, PB, 792pp, pounds 31.99
A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE: SETTINGS AND RITUALS
By Spiro Kostof. Oxford University Press, PB, 792pp, pounds 31.99
It gets harder to hold out for Kostof the closer I look. In the past I've favoured him because he doesn't turn the project into a flood of names and dates, but evokes both the setting and the building as stirring spatial encounters. He's wonderful on Versailles, for...