[MassHistPres] Fwd: [ARLIS-L] Spiro Kostof Lectures Available Online from UC Berkeley

[Dennis De Witt]

Here is an opportunity to take a course in the history of western  
architecture since the Renaissance from one of the great mid-20th C  
(modern movement related) historians.

Dennis De Witt

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> Renowned Architectural Historian Spiro Kostof Lectures Available  
> Online from the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley.
> Spiro Kostof (1936-1991), widely recognized as one of the world's  
> leading architectural historians, taught his last course in the  
> Spring of 1991 in the Architecture Department of UC Berkeley's  
> College ofEnvironmental Design.  The 26 lectures of his course "A  
> Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism" covering the period  
> from the Florentine Renaissance to the post-modernism of the late  
> 20th century were video recorded and have recently been digitized  
> and made available for public viewing.  Kostof's lectures were  
> heralded for situating the architectural monument in a framework of  
> vernacular buildings that imbue it with meaning.  He was also known  
> for exposing the relationships between architecture and the people  
> and cultures that built it.  Kostof was the author of A History of  
> Architecture: Settings and Rituals (1985), The City Shaped (1991),  
> and The City Assembled (published posthumously in 1992).  The 26 80- 
> minute streaming lectures can be found at http:// 
> www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/kostof.html.
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