Books
- Kostof, Spiro, America by Design, Oxford University Press, New York 1987.
- Kostof, Spiro, Caves of God: Cappadocia and its Churches Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1989 ISBN 0-19-506000-8 ISBN 978-0195060003
- Kostof, Spiro, The Architect: Chapters in the History of the Profession, Oxford University Press, 1977; third edition, University of California Press, Berkeley Los Angeles London 2000.
- Kostof, Spiro, The City Assembled: Elements of Urban Form through History, Little Brown, Boston 1992; second printing Thames & Hudson New York 2005.
- Kostof, Spiro, The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History, second edition Thames & Hudson, New York 1999
- Kostof, Spiro, A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals, Oxford University Press, New York Oxford 1985; second edition 1995.
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