Architectural historian Joseph Rykwert is currently the Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture Emeritus and Professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught generations of architecture historians and theoreticians.
Prof. Rykwert is the author of many books on architecture including The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture, On Adam’s House in Paradise The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History, and The Seduction of Place: The City in the Twenty-First Century.