Title & Author:

Reckoning with Colin Rowe : ten architects take position / edited by Emmanuel Petit.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

Description:

viii, 178 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Rowe after Colin Rowe / Emmanuel Petit -- Mannerism : Mannerism and modernism : the importance of irony / Robert Maxwell -- Reckoning with art history : Colin Rowe's critical vision / Anthony Vidler -- Bifurcating Rowe / Peter Eisenman -- Opposing Zeitgeist : He who did not understand the Zeitgeist / O. Mathias Ungers -- Unresolved encounters with Colin Rowe / Léon Krier -- Being O.M.U.'s ghostwriter / Rem Koolhaas -- Transparency, collage, montage : Transparency revisited / Alan Colquhoun -- To reason with one's vision / Robert Slutzky -- Transparent form-organization as an instrument of design / Bernhard Hoesli -- Montage : deconstructing collage / Bernard Tschumi -- Postscript : Comparing comparisons in Colin Rowe / Jonah Rowen.

Summary:

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, Léon 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.

ISBN:

9780415741545 (hardback ; alk. paper)
0415741548 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9780415741552 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415741556 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781315815251
9781317807018 (ePub ebook)
9781317807025 (PDF ebook)
9781317807001 (Mobipocket ebook)

Subject:

Rowe, Colin, 1920-1999.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture 20e siècle.

Added entries:

Petit, Emmanuel, 1973- editor.
Maxwell, Robert, 1922-2020. Mannerism and modernism.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289454
Call No.: BIB 231940
Status: Available