kostof造句

• The BBC and National Jewish Book Award and the Spiro Kostof Award.
• Born in Turkey, of Greek and Bulgarian ethnic origin, Kostof was educated at Istanbul's Robert College.
• This classic work initially published in 1985 has been expanded by Greg Castillo, the late Spiro Kostof's executor.
• "A History of Architecture : Settings and Rituals " by Spiro Kostof ( Oxford University Press, $ 60 ).
• Kostof's approach to architectural history emphasized urbanism as well as architecture and showed how architectural works are embedded in their physical and social contexts.
• Kostof's textbook, " A History of Architecture : Settings and Rituals " ( 1985 ) embodied these ideas and soon became one of the standard texts in the field.
• Commonly accepted today, Kostof's approach was a break with previous directions in architectural history which tended to emphasize the sequence of styles and to study architectural works in relative isolation from their settings.
• According to architectural historian Spiro Kostof, generations of popes remade Rome with the intention of modernizing the city, opening up the airless medieval core, creating new residential areas, linking the great monuments and quarters with roads, and putting their stamp on it wherever possible.
• Spiro Kostof said that the building was " too coolly self-possessed, too intellectual perhaps to start a trend . " After the International style became popular in the 1950s, the PSFS Building was called one of the most important skyscrapers built in the United States in the first half of the 20th century.
• Kostof's publications were wide-ranging and included " The Architect : Chapters in the History of the Profession "; " The City Shaped : Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History "; " America by Design "; and " The City Assembled : Elements of Urban Form through History ".
• In 1993, following his death, the Society of Architectural Historians established the " "'Spiro Kostof Award "'", to recognize books " in the spirit of Kostof's writings, " particularly those that are interdisciplinary and whose content focuses on urban development, the history of urban form, and / or the architecture of the built environment.
• In 1993, following his death, the Society of Architectural Historians established the " "'Spiro Kostof Award "'", to recognize books " in the spirit of Kostof's writings, " particularly those that are interdisciplinary and whose content focuses on urban development, the history of urban form, and / or the architecture of the built environment.
• Architectural historian Spiro Kostof writes that " The word'grid'is a convenient, and imprecise, substitute for'orthogonal planning'.'Gridiron'in the US implies a pattern of long narrow blocks, and'checkerboard'a pattern of square blocks . " In addition to the right angle being a key characteristic, a second attribute of equal importance is its imputed openness and unconstrained expandability.