Reckoning with Colin Rowe

Reckoning with Colin Rowe

<P>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.</P> <P>This book unites ten different perspectives from architects whose lives and ideas intersected with Rowe’s, including:</P> <UL> <LI>Robert Maxwell</LI> <LI>Anthony Vidler</LI> <LI>Peter Eisenman</LI> <LI>O. Mathias Ungers</LI> <LI>Léon Krier</LI> <LI>Rem Koolhaas</LI> <LI>Alan Colquhoun</LI> <LI>Robert Slutzky</LI> <LI>Bernhard Hoesli</LI> <LI>Bernard Tschumi</LI> <LI>With an introduction by Emmanuel Petit and a postscript by Jonah Rowen</LI></UL> <P>In their critical assessment of a key 20<SUP>th </SUP>century formalist, these renowned architects reflect on how their own positions came to diverge from Rowe’s. <I>Reckoning with Colin Rowe </I>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.</P>