• Spiro Konstantine Kostof (7 May 1936, Istanbul – 7 December 1991, Berkeley) was a Turkish-born American leading architectural historian, and educator....
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    book, "The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston," was awarded the Spiro Kostof Award by the Society of Architectural Historians. Her 2011 book, "Slaves...
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    Underground City Ihlara Valley Underground cities in Avanos Cappadocian Greek Spiro Kostof Population exchange between Greece and Turkey Peter Mackridge,"Some Pamphlets...
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    Derinkuyu Underground City Underground cities in Avanos Cappadocian Greek Spiro Kostof Archive of ozkonak.com Community Site (in Turkish) with news, pictures...
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    1983, The Architectural Press, London A History of Architecture, by Spiro Kostof 1995, The Oxford Press. Media related to Courtyards at Wikimedia Commons...
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    emerge from spontaneous, unorganized growth. Architectural historian Spiro Kostof writes that "The word 'grid' is a convenient, and imprecise, substitute...
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    from Antiquity to the Present, by Rabun Taylor, Katherine Rinne, and Spiro Kostof (d), (Cambridge University Press: September 2016). pp. 8–9. Archived...
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    1996 "The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History", Spiro Kostof, 2nd Edition, Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1999 ISBN 978-0-500-28099-7 The...
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    from Antiquity to the Present, Rabun Taylor, Katherine W. Rinne and Spiro Kostof, 2016 pp. 160–179 Rome, Profile of a City: 321–1308, Richard Krautheimer...
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  • 1996 "The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History", Spiro Kostof, 2nd Edition, Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1999 ISBN 978-0-500-28099-7 The...
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    Rock-cut Monuments in Petra, Jordan" (Oxford, England: Archaeopress), 2005. Spiro Kostof, Caves of God: the Monastic Environment of Byzantine Cappadocia (MIT...
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  • Stephen Orgel, "Leonardo's Legend", ELH, Vol. 49, No. 2, Summer, 1982. Spiro Kostof, The Architect: Chapters in the History of the Profession, University...
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  • Karl Kasten (B.A. 1938, M.A. 1939) – Professor Emeritus, Art Practice Spiro Kostof – Professor of Architecture (1965–1991) Lois Wilson Langhorst – architecture...
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    of the helical shapes that Wright had used in his designs since 1925. Spiro Kostof called the museum "a gift of pure architecture", and Edgar Kaufmann Jr...
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    founder of the Department of Architecture Sara Ishikawa Allan Jacobs Spiro Kostof Lars Lerup Donlyn Lyndon Aaron Marcus, graphic designer Clare Cooper...
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    Vittoriano 1911–2011. Atti della Giornata di studi, Gangemi Editore Spa, 2011 Spiro Kostof, The Third Rome 1870–1950: an Introduction "Sacconi, Giuseppe" (in Italian)...
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  • (ESALA), Edinburgh College of Art, the University of Edinburgh. 2020 Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians 2018 Silver Book...
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    Byzantine Cappadocia. Washington DC: Harvard University Press, 1986. 16. Kostof, Spiro. Caves of God: The Monastic Environment of Byzantine Cappadocia. Cambridge:...
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  • Society for American City and Regional Planning History, and the 1999 Spiro Kostof Award of the Society of Architectural Historians. His 1999 book, The...
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  • Architecture and Identity, for which he won two prestigious awards; the Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians in 2008 and the...
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    Il Vittoriano nascosto. Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali. Spiro Kostof. The Third Rome 1870—1950: an Introduction. Levi, Primo (April 1904)...
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    buildings, the skyscraper did not start a trend in banking architecture. Spiro Kostof said that the building was "too coolly self-possessed, too intellectual...
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    Jewish Book Award (1996) for Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present, and the Spiro Kostof Award (1997) from the Society of Architectural Historians. He was a 1994-95...
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  • 1996 "The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History", Spiro Kostof, 2nd Edition, Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1999 ISBN 978-0-500-28099-7 The...
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  • voice actress, translator, and lecturer Vasif Kortun, musician, curator Spiro Kostof, architectural historian, chronicler of urban form Karolos Koun, Greek...
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  • Germany, Nigeria, India, the UK and the USA. In 2003 he was winner of the Spiro Kostof Prize of the Society of Architectural Historians for Concrete and clay:...
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    Il Vittoriano nascosto. Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali. Spiro Kostof (1973). The Third Rome 1870—1950: an Introduction. Levi, Primo (April...
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    25m". www.independent.ie. 7 November 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2020. Kostof, Spiro (1985). A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals. New York: Oxford...
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  • History," Journal of Early Modern History (1997) 1#2 pp 176-181. See Spiro Kostof, The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History (1991)...
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    Martin Price, Routledge, New York, pp. 38 ff. ISBN 0-415-05036-7). Kostof, Spiro (1985). A History of Architecture. Oxford: Oxford University Press....
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