THE ANNUAL SOANE LECTURE

NOW YOU SEE IT - NOW YOU DON'T:
ON THE HARMONIC ORDER

 

by

PROFESSOR JOSEPH RYKWERT

Thursday 10 December at 6.30pm

At the Royal College of Surgeons, 35 - 43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2

Buildings will only stand up or be useful if they are ordered. That is why the orders of architecture are so important in all the literature of building. But is their authority so tightly bound to their ornamental fitting out that it cannot be impressed without it? Or is some other principle involved in the constitution of the orders of architecture that may be worth investigating?

 

Joseph Rykwert was born in Warsaw, but educated in Britain. He was the Librarian of the Royal College of Art and held posts at the Universities of Essex and Cambridge where he was Slade Professor. He is currently Professor of Architecture Emeritus in the University of Pennsylvania He has lectured or taught at most major universities throughout the world.. His book The Dancing Column (MIT, 1996) is about to appear in Italian and Portuguese, while his latest, The Judicious Eye, was published in 2008. All his books have been translated into several languages.

The lecture will be followed by drinks at the Museum.

Tickets cost £15.00 (£10.00 for students) and can be bought or booked in advance by calling Beth Walker on 020 7440 4254, email bwalker@soane.org.uk, or purchased on the door (subject to availability).

 

 

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