Urbanistics

Colin Rowe has achieved legendary status as one of a handful of outstanding studio teachers of architecture and urban design to emerge within the last two generations. His writings reveal the powerful insight and dispassionate, authoritative intelligence that mark him as one of the preeminent architectural thinkers of this perplexing half century. Divided into three volumes, in more or less chronological order, As I Was Saying includes articles, essays, eulogies, lectures, reviews, and memoranda. Some appeared only in obscure journals, and many are published here for the first time.

• Programme versus paradigm - otherwise causal notes on the pragmatic, the typical and the possible
• matrix of man
• eulogy - Martin Dominguez
• architectural education - USA
• on conceptual architecture
• waiting for Utopia
• Robert Venturi and the Yale Mathematics Building competition
• Giulio Romano's Palazzo Maccarani and the 16th century grid/frame/lattice/web
• the provocative facade - frontality and "contrapposto"
• classicism, neo-classicism, neo-neo-classicism
• who, but Stirling?
• ideas, talent, poetics - a problem of manifesto
• interview - 1989
• Moneo's Spain
• letter - on precedent and invention.