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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Petit, Emmanuel, 1973- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rowe, Colin.

Rowe, Colin, 1920-1999.

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Physical Description:

viii, 178 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

While the first half of the twentieth century in architecture was, to a large extent, characterized by innovations in aesthetics (accompanied by succinct and polemical manifestos), 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 twentieth-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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Rowe after Colin Rowe / Emmanuel Petit Petit, Emmanuel 3

Mannerism 25

Mannerism and Modernism: The Importance of Irony / Robert Maxwell Maxwell, Robert 27

Reckoning with Art History: Colin Rowe's Critical Vision / Anthony Vidler Vidler, Anthony 41

Bifurcating Rowe / Peter Eisenman Eisenman, Peter 57

Opposing Zeitgeist 63

He Who Did Not Understand the Zeitgeist / O. Mathias Ungers Ungers, O. Mathias 65

Unresolved Encounters with Colin Rowe / Léon Krier Krier, Léon 73

Being O.M.U.'s Ghostwriter / Rem Koolhaas Koolhaas, Rem 87

Transparency, Collage, Montage 99

Transparency Revisited / Alan Colquhoun Colquhoun, Alan 101

To Reason with One's Vision / Robert Slutzky Slutzky, Robert 113

Transparent Form-Organization as an Instrument of Design / Bernhard Hoesli Hoesli, Bernhard 127

Montage: Deconstructing Collage / Bernard Tschumi Tschumi, Bernard 139

Postscript 153

Comparing Comparisons in Colin Rowe / Jonah Rowen Rowen, Jonah 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Maxwell, Robert, 1922-2020. Mannerism and modernism.

ISBN:

9780415741545

0415741548

9780415741552

0415741556

OCLC:

889167631