World architecture : a cross-cultural history /
Richard Ingersoll.
- Second edition
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2019
- x, 998 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 28 cm
Previous edition: 2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Spiro Kostof pioneered a sweeping, unified narrative of architecture, based on its role in everyday life and society. Author Richard Ingersoll makes Kostof's highly-respected prose much more accessible, the coverage more global and flexible, social and cultural themes more obvious in section openers and boxes, and the diagrams bolder and clearer.