*Renowned Architectural Historian Spiro Kostof Lectures Available Online
from the **University** of **California**, **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 of Environmental 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.
David Eifler
Reference and Instruction Librarian, Environmental Design Library
University of California, Berkeley
210 Wurster Hall, Berkeley CA 94720-6000
www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI
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