Winner, Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, Society of Architectural Historians, 1998.

Joseph Rykwert is one of the major architectural historians of this century, whose full humanistic understanding of architecture and its historical significance is unrivaled. The Dancing Column 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.

The body-column metaphor is as old as architectural thought, informing the works of Vitruvius, Alberti, and many later writers; but The Dancing Column is the first comprehensive treatment to do this huge subject full justice. It provides a new critical examination of the way the classical orders, which have dominated Western architecture for nearly three millennia, were first formulated. Rykwert opens with a review of their consequence for the leading architects of the twen tieth century, and then traces ideas related to them in accounts of sacred antiquity and in scientific doctrines of humor and character.

The body-column metaphor is traced in archaeological material from Egypt, Asia Minor, and the Levant, as well as from Greece, drawing on recent accounts by hi storians of Greek religion and society as well as the latest discoveries of archaeologists. Perhaps most important, Rykwert reexamines its significance for the formation of any theoretical view of architecture.

Chapters cover an astonishing breadth of material, including the notions of a set number and a proportional as well as an ornamental rule of the orders; the theological-philosophical interpretatio Christiana of antiquity on which the domination of the orders relied; the astrological and geometrical canon of the human figure; gender and column; the body as a constantly refashioned cultural product; the Greek temple building and the nature of cult; and the endurance of ornamental forms and the function of symbols.

�ber die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joseph Rykwert is Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.

��ber diesen Titel� kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Anbieterinformationen

I am a collector of items, and most of my inventory comes from a life-time collection. I have the rare, and not so rare items, that you may be looking for. My inventory is large and always expanding. My book listings change by the week. I have been selling books for two years now and I pride myself on offering my customers outstanding service.

Zur Homepage des Verk�ufers

Unternehmensdaten des Verk�ufers

Signedbookman
IL, U.S.A.

Gesch�ftsbedingungen und Versandinformationen

Verkaufsbedingungen

Books will be shipped within two days of purchase. If for any reason the buyer is not satisifed with the book, we will gladly refund their full purchase price and shipping.

Widerrufsbelehrung

Versandbedingungen

All books are wrapped in paper and bubble-wrap. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we will contact you to let you know extra shipping is required.

Versandkosten innerhalb von USA

Versandkosten innerhalb von USA
Bestellmenge	5 bis 20�Werktage	3 bis 10�Werktage
Erster Artikel	EUR 4.27	EUR 7.69

Die Versandzeiten werden von den Verk�uferinnen und Verk�ufern festgelegt. Sie variieren je nach Versanddienstleister und Standort. Sendungen, die den Zoll passieren, k�nnen Verz�gerungen unterliegen. Eventuell anfallende Abgaben oder Geb�hren sind von der K�uferin bzw. dem K�ufer zu tragen. Die Verk�uferin bzw. der Verk�ufer kann Sie bez�glich zus�tzlicher Versandkosten kontaktieren, um einen m�glichen Anstieg der Versandkosten f�r Ihre Artikel auszugleichen.