The Architect: Chapters in the History of the Profession

by Spiro Kostof

Book Overview

How did architects get to be architects in any given period in history? How were they trained? How did they find their clients and communicate with them? What did society think of them?
Spiro Kostof's The Architect, a collection of essays by historians and architects, explores these and other intriguing questions about the profession of architecture. The first book in more than fifty years to survey the profession from its beginnings in ancient...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195040449
• ISBN13: 9780195040449
• Release Date: June 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"