The Dancing Column: On Order and Architecture
by RYKWERT, Joseph
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- Condition
- very good(+)
- ISBN 10
- 0262181703
- ISBN 13
- 9780262181709
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About This Item
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996. paperback. very good(+). Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs throughout. 598 pages. 4to, pictorial paper wrappers. Cambridge: MIT Press, (1996). Very slightly worn at corners, and a bit dirty at bottom edge of text block, still a very good(+) copy, inscribed by the author on half title.<br/> <br/> Joseph Rykwert is one of the major architectural historians of this century . The Dancing Column 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.<br/> <br/>
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- Argosy Book Store (US)
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- Title
- The Dancing Column: On Order and Architecture
- Author
- RYKWERT, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - very good(+)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0262181703
- ISBN 13
- 9780262181709
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1996
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