By Spiro Kostof
How did architects get to be architects in any given interval in historical past? How have been they educated? How did they locate their consumers and converse with them? What did society contemplate them?
Spiro Kostof's The Architect, a set of essays through historians and designers, explores those and different fascinating questions about the occupation of structure. the 1st ebook in additional than fifty years to survey the career from its beginnings in historical Egypt to the fashionable day, it's the such a lot entire synthesis so far of our wisdom of ways the architect's occupation built. incorporated are an important examine of the Beaux-Arts, a brilliant memoir through the celebrated architect Josephy Esherick, and a very good bankruptcy on girls which demostrates how the ethic of professionalism has contributed to the exploitation of girls during this as in lots of different professions.
The Architect locations the present trouble in regards to the architect's function in society in old viewpoint and provides an outstanding assessment of the advance of 1 of the world's oldest professions.
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Of those in the provinces we know next to nothing. Because of this scarcity, the name and career of Apollodorus stand out strongly. We probably know more about him than about any architect between Vitruvius and Brunelleschi, unless perhaps the detailed, exact data now being given us about the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople reveals, when taken with his mathematical writings, more about Anthemius, who is discussed below. Our information about Apollodorus is of a different order, in any event. He is said to have come from Damascus in Syria, and this has been made the basis of a good deal of profitless speculation, running along the lines of how he brought Hellenistic architectural ideas to Rome, how his provenance proves the ascendancy of Greek art in the High Empire, and the like.
Vitruvius writes briefly of what was done in the drafting room: 40 THE ARCHITECT The ways of setting things out [species dispositionis] are these: plan [ichnographia], elevation [orthographia], and perspective [scaenographia]. A plan is made by the proper use of compass and rule, through which the proper outlines are set for the building. An elevation is the image of a standing facade, properly drawn to show the finished appearance. 2]. In another place we glimpse office work again: An architect must be a man of letters that he may keep a record of useful works.
Such inscriptions abound, testimony to the size of the profession and its practitioners' pride in it. the only profession they overlook. Inscriptions naming architects, usually from their tombs, are fairly common (Figure 6), and once in a while a name can be gleaned from some other source. But these last-named simply produce lists, and tell us little else. Quantifying the data as to place, date (when known), names, and the like yields little or nothing of use because the data are both sporadic and insufficient.