Reckoning with Colin Rowe : ten architects take position
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Reckoning with Colin Rowe : ten architects take position
Routledge, 2015
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While the first half of the 20th century in architecture was, to a large extent, characterized by innovations in aesthetics (accompanied by succinct and polemical manifestoes), the post-war decades saw emerge a more refined and intellectual disciplinary framework that eventually metamorphosed into the highly theory-focused moment of the 'postmodern'. Colin Frederick Rowe (1920 - 1999) was a leader of this epistemic shift due to his aptitude to connect his historical and philosophical erudition to the visual analysis of architecture.
This book unites ten different perspectives from architects whose lives and ideas intersected with Rowe's, including:
Robert Maxwell
Anthony Vidler
Peter Eisenman
O. Mathias Ungers
Leon Krier
Rem Koolhaas
Alan Colquhoun
Robert Slutzky
Bernhard Hoesli
Bernard Tschumi
With an introduction by Emmanuel Petit and a postscript by Jonah Rowen
In their critical assessment of a key 20th century formalist, these renowned architects reflect on how their own positions came to diverge from Rowe's. Reckoning with Colin Rowe is a thought-provoking discussion of key schools, places, concepts and people of architectural theory since the post-war years, illustrated with over forty beautiful black and white drawings and photographs.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction: Rowe After Colin Rowe Part 1: Mannerism 1. Robert Maxwell Mannerism and Modernism: The Importance of Irony 2. Anthony Vidler Reckoning with Art History: Colin Rowe's Critical Vision 3. Peter Eisenman Bifurcating Rowe Part 2: Opposing Zeitgeist 4. O. Mathias Ungers He Who Did Not Understand the Zeitgeist 5. Leon Krier Unresolved Encounters with Colin Rowe 6. Rem Koolhaas Being O.M.U.'s Ghost-writer Part 3: Transparency, Collage, Montage 7. Alan Colquhoun Transparency Revisited 8. Robert Slutzky To Reason with One's Vision 9. Bernhard Hoesli Transparent Form-Organization as an Instrument of Design 10. Bernard Tschumi Montage: Deconstructing Collage Postscript: Jonah Rowen Comparing Comparisons in Colin Rowe Contributor Bios Image Credits Index
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