Joseph Rykwert (Warsaw, Poland, 1926) is a renowned architectural historian and author of numerous books on the subject. In 1939, he emigrated to England, where he taught at the Universities of Essex and Cambridge. He currently teaches Art History at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also been a visiting professor at prestigious universities and has mentored a generation of architectural historians and theorists throughout his career.

He is the author of the following publications: The Judicious Eye: Architecture Against the Other Arts (2008); The Seduction of Place: The City in the Twenty-First Century (2004); Body and Building: Essays on the Changing Relation of Body and Architecture edited by George Dodds and Robert Tavernor (2002); The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture (1998); Leon Battista Alberti's On the Art of Building in Ten Books translated by Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach and Robert Tavernor (1991) The Idea of ​​a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy, and The Ancient World (1988) and On Adam's House in Paradise The Idea of ​​the Primitive Hut in Architectural History (1981)