The architect : Chapters in the history of the profession / edited by Spiro Kostof ; foreword and epilogue by Dana Cuff.

Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1977.

The practice of architecture in the ancient world : Egypt and Greece / Spiro Kostof -- Roman architects / William L. MacDonald --The architect in the Middle Ages, East and West / Spiro Kostof -- The emergence of the Italian architect during the fifteenth century / Leopold D. Ettlinger --The new professionalism in the Renaissance / Catherine Wilkinson -- The Royal Building Administration in France from Charles V to Louis XIV / Myra Nan Rosenfeld --The rise of the professional architect in England / John Wilton-Ely --The Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the architectural profession in the United States : the case of John Galen Howard / Joan Draper -- Architectural education in the thirties and seventies : a personal view / Joseph Esherick --On the fringe of the profession : women in American architecture / Gwendolyn Wright --Architectural practice in America, 1865-1965--ideal and reality / Bernard Michael Boyle.