Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture

Rykwert, Joseph

ISBN 10: 0262181703 / ISBN 13: 9780262181709

Published by MIT Press, 1996

About this Item

Very light wear to edges of jacket with a little surface scuffing/scratching. Previous owner's mark in black ink to top right corner of half-title page, interior otherwise clean and unmarked.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262181703
• ISBN 13: 9780262181709
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture
  • Art & Design

About this title

Synopsis

Joseph Rykwert is one of the major architectural historians of this century. The Dancing Column is his most controversial and challenging work to date. A decade in preparation, it is a deeply erudite, clearly written, and wide-ranging deconstruction of the system of column and beam known as the "orders of architecture". Rykwert traces the analogy between columns and/or buildings and the human body. Contains many color illustrations.

About the Author

Joseph Rykwert is Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.