Joseph Rykwert Returns With The Judicious Eye, A Treatise On Architecture's Estrangement From Art, Writes Patrick Lynch

摘要

Eminent critic and AJ columnist Joseph Rykwert (see page 18) is the author of most of the important books about architecture published since the Second World War. His life's work is summarised succinctly in the preface to the 1988 MIT Press edition of The Idea of a Town (first published in 1976) as an investigation into 'the way myth and ritual shape, even create, the man-made environment and the way in which they rationalise and explain it'.