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.
- ISBN10 0262181703
- ISBN13 9780262181709
- Publish Date 31 December 1996
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 15 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher MIT Press Ltd
- Imprint MIT Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 616
- Language English