The Dancing Column
Author: Joseph Rykwert
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 630
ISBN-13: 9780262681018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoseph 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. 315 illustrations.