The Dancing Column: On Order and Architecture
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs throughout. 598 pages. 4to, pictorial paper wrappers. Cambridge: MIT Press, (1996). Very slightly worn at corners, and a bit dirty at bottom edge of text block, still a very good(+) copy, inscribed by the author on half title. Joseph Rykwert is one of the major architectural historians of this century . The Dancing Column is a deeply erudite, clearly written, and wide ranging deconstruction of the system of column..... More