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Joseph
Rykwert
Biography
Joseph
Rykwert is Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture (now
Emeritus) at the University of Pennsylvania. He has lectured
or taught at most major schools of architecture throughout the
world and has held visiting appointments in Princeton, the Cooper
Union, New York, Harvard Graduate School of Design, the University
of Sydney, Louvain, the Institut d'Urbanisme, Paris, the Central
European University and others. He has held fellowships at the
Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, Washington and
the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, and
was Slade Professor in the Fine Arts at the University of Cambridge
in 1979/80. His publications include: The Golden House (1947);
The Idea of a Town (1963 and two subsequent editions), On Adam's
House in Paradise (1972 and subsequent editions); The First Moderns
(1980), The Necessity of Artifice (1982); The Brothers Adam (1984),
a new translation of Alberti's architecture treatise, On the
Art of Building in Ten Books (1989, with Robert Tavernor and
Neil Leach), and The Dancing Column (1996). The Seduction of
Place will be published in autumn 2000. All his books have been
translated into several languages. In 1984, he was appointed
Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France). He also
holds various honorary degrees and is a member of the Italian
Accademia di San Luca. He is currently working on a new book,
which deals with the relationship of architecture and the other
arts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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