How long does it take to read A History of Architecture?
A History of Architecture by Spiro Kostof takes about 14 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 36 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1985. 796 pages, about 218,900 words.
30 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 24 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
No mere survey of famous buildings, Kostof's History examines an inclusive spectrum of manmade structures: prehistoric huts and the TVA, the pyramids at Giza and the Rome railway station, the ziggurat and the department store. Indeed, Kostof considered every building worthy of attention, every structure or shelter a potential source of insight, whether it be the prehistoric hunting camps at Terra Amata, or the caves at Lascaux with their magnificent paintings, or a twenty-story hotel on the Las Vegas strip. The Second Edition features a new concluding chapter, "Designing the Fin-de-Siecle," based on Kostof's last lecture notes and prepared by Castillo, as well as an all-new sixteen-page color section. Many of the original line drawings by Richard Tobias, as well as some fifty photographs, have also been updated or replaced, for improved clarity.
Subjects: Architecture, History, Bouwkunst, Geschichte, História da arquitetura, Architektur
