The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture - Hardcover

Rykwert, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262181703 ISBN 13: 9780262181709

Verlag: MIT Press, 1996

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Book by Rykwert Joseph

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" Joseph Rykwert is a gloriously erudite, ingeniously speculative historian and critic of architecture --- of, that is, the forms (in the most concrete sense) of civilization, of social embodiment itself. His "The Dancing Column" is a sovereign account of its intricate subject and an enthralling mental journey." -- Susan Sontag " Can a highly erudite book enquire what the sex of columns might be? It can, if the author is Joseph Rykwert. Can one imagine anything more rigid, more desperately immutable and dumb than a column? And yet Rykwert not only makes it dance, as he promised in the title; he also makes it speak. We thought we knew all there was to know about the ancient theory of the architectural orders, but Rykwert obliges us to return to the origins of Western civilization and listen to what architecture is telling us - speaking of many other things beside itself." -- Umberto Eco & quot; Joseph Rykwert is a gloriously erudite, ingeniously speculative historian and critic of architecture --- of, that is, the forms (in the most concrete sense) of civilization, of social embodiment itself. His The Dancing Column is a sovereign account of its intricate subject and an enthralling mental journey.& quot; -- Susan Sontag & quot; Can a highly erudite book enquire what the sex of columns might be? It can, if the author is Joseph Rykwert. Can one imagine anything more rigid, more desperately immutable and dumb than a column? And yet Rykwert not only makes it dance, as he promised in the title; he also makes it speak. We thought we knew all there was to know about the ancient theory of the architectural orders, but Rykwert obliges us to return to the origins of Western civilization and listen to what architecture is telling us - speaking of many other things beside itself.& quot; -- Umberto Eco "Joseph Rykwert is a gloriously erudite, ingeniously speculative historian and critic of architecture--- of, that is, the forms (in the most concrete sense) of civilization, of social embodiment itself. His "The Dancing Column" is a sovereign account of its intricate subject and an enthralling mental journey."--Susan Sontag "Can a highly erudite book enquire what the sex of columns might be? It can, if the author is Joseph Rykwert. Can one imagine anything more rigid, more desperately immutable and dumb than a column? And yet Rykwert not only makes it dance, as he promised in the title; he also makes it speak. We thought we knew all there was to know about the ancient theory of the architectural orders, but Rykwert obliges us to return to the origins of Western civilization and listen to what architecture is telling us - speaking of many other things beside itself."--Umberto Eco

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This work is a deconstruction of the system of column and beam known as the "orders of architecture", tracing the analogy between columns and the human body. It provides a critical examination of the way classical orders were first formulated, and looks at their consequences.

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• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0262181703
• ISBN 13: 9780262181709
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 616