The dancing column : on order in architecture / Joseph Rykwert
by Rykwert, Joseph
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0262181703
- ISBN 13
- 9780262181709
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About This Item
Massachusetts, London, MIT Press. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description : xviii, 598 p. : ill., ma p., plans ; 28 cm. Notes : Includes bibliography, index. English. Contents : List of illustrations -- Preface -- Order in buildings -- Order in the body -- The body and the world -- Gender and column -- The literary commonplace -- The rule and the song -- The hero as a column -- The known and the seen -- The mask, the horns, and the eyes -- The corinthian virgin -- A native column? -- Order or intercourse -- Notes -- Abbreviations and ancient texts -- Bibliography -- Index. Subject : Architecture Orders. Columns, Doric. Columns, Ionic. Columns, Corinthian. Body, Human Influence. Eclecticism in architecture.
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 379628
- Title
- The dancing column : on order in architecture / Joseph Rykwert
- Author
- Rykwert, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0262181703
- ISBN 13
- 9780262181709
- Publisher
- Massachusetts, London, MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 1996-03
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