The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture

By Joseph Rykwert

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