Rykwert, Joseph
RYKWERT, Joseph
RYKWERT, Joseph. British (born Poland), b. 1926. Genres: Architecture, Art/Art history. Career: Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1988. Visiting Lecturer, Hochschule fur Gestaltung, Ulm, 1958-60; Librarian, Royal College of Art, London, 1960-67; Professor of Art, University of Essex, Colchester, 1967- 80; Reader in Architecture, 1981-87, Cambridge University; Member of the Commission, Venice Biennale, 1974-77; Visiting professor at: Princeton University, 1971, 1977; Paris, 1974, 1976; Harvard, 1980; Columbia, 1986. Publications: The Golden House, 1947; (ed.) Ten Books on Architecture of L. B. Alberti, 1955; The Idea of a Town, 1963, 3rd ed., 1988; Church Building, 1966; On Adam's House in Paradise, 1972; (ed.) Parole nel Vuoto (essays by A. Loos), 1972; G. B. Nolli's Plan of Rome, 1977; The First Moderns: Architects of the Eighteenth Century, 1980; The Necessity of Artifice (collected essays on art and architecture), 1982; (with A. Rykwert) The Brothers Adam, 1985; (trans.) On the Art of Building, by Alberti, 1988; The Dancing Column, 1996; The Seduction of Place, 2000. Address: Ph.D. Program in Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. Online address: Josephrykwert@aol.com