As I was saying : recollections and miscellaneous essays

edited by Alexander Caragonne 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.

• Two Italian encounters
• Henry-Russell Hitchcock
• Texas and Mrs Harris
• comments of Harwell Hamilton Harris to the Faculty, May 25, 1954
• Lockhart, Texas
• transparency - literal and phenomenal, part 2
• review - "Forms and Functions of Twentieth-Century Architecure" by Talbot Hamlin
• review - "Roots of Comtemporary American Architecture" by Lewis Mumford
• Cambridge 1958-1962
• Le Corbusier - utopian architect
• the Blenheim of the Welfare State
• a vote of thanks
• review - student work of the Architectural Association
• review - "A Testament" by Frank Lloyd Wright
• review - "Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" by Henry-Russell Hitchcock
• Sidgwick Avenue.

edited by Alexander Caragonne 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.

• Cornell studio projects and theses - Centre Binghampton, Houston Satellite City, Buffalo Waterfront, Zurich Centre, South Amboy new town, the figure/grounds, Bronx development project, 48th Street, West Side, Manhattan, Manhattan Waterfront, West 14th Street, South Baltimore development, Harvard/Charles River design project, Upper Manhattan development strategy, Marylebone district development, London, Providence - Capitol district development strategy, Milwaukee Lakefront design competition, Burlington, Vermont, urbanization strategy, Turin - the Lingotto site, Warburg Institute, Pitigliano, Boston redevelopment, Firenze - Fortezza da Basso, Stazione Santa Maria Novella, Cascine, three projects for Rome - Largo Argentina, Quartiere dei Banchi, Piazza del Cinquecento, Manhattan - object/fabric, Chicago - a plan for the central area
• the new city - architecture and urban renewal
• Buffalo Waterfront
• Nicollet Island, Minneapolis
• "Roma interrotta"
• Rome - Piazza Augusto Imperatore
• the present urban predicament
• comments on the IBA proposals
• the vanished city
• a student project - Berlin
• urban space
• the revolt of the senses
• "I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs"
• Bibliotheca Alexandrina - an also-ran?
• interview - "Design Book review"
• Alvin Boyarsky - a memory
• eulogy - Jim Stirling
• Jim Stirling (1923-1992)
• a postscript on Alvin and Jim.

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.