The Dancing Column

By: Rykwert, Joseph

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262181703
• ISBN13: 9780262181709
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 3.7" x 9.0" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher