The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture

Joseph Rykwert is one of the major architectural historians of this century, whose full humanistic understanding of architecture and its historical fiction significance is unrivaled. Is certain to be 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, tracing the powerful and persistent analogy between columns and/or buildings and the human body.

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