Joseph Rykwert

Joseph Rykwert is Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture and Professor of Art History, Emeritus M.A., Cantab; Dr., Royal College of Art; Hon. Dsc., Edinburgh. Was Slade Professor of Fine Arts, Cambridge University; The Andrew Mellon Visiting Professor, Cooper Union; Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington; George Lurcy Professor, Columbia; Senior Scholar, Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica; awarded Chevalier dans l'ordres des Arts et des Lettres, France. Member Accademia di San Luca. Books include: The Necessity of Artifice, The Idea of a Town, The First Moderns, On Adam's House in Paradise, a new translation of L.B.Alberti's On the Art of Building in Ten Books, The Dancing Column, and On the Orders of Architecture.
and is widely recognised as one of the leading architectural historians of the twentieth century.