The mathematics of the ideal villa, and other essays / Colin Rowe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowe, Colin.

Contributor:

Wunsch, Aaron V., Former owner.

Slutzky, Robert, illustrator.

Bostick, Joel, illustrator.

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, funder.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Domestic.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 223 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm

Edition:

[First MIT Press paperback edition].

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [1982]

Summary:

This collection of an important architectural theorist's essays considers and compares designs by Palladio and Le Corbusier, discusses mannerism and modern architecture, architectural vocabulary in the 19th century, the architecture of Chicago, neoclassicism and modern architecture, and the architecture of utopia.

Contents:

The mathematics of the ideal villa

Mannerism and modern architecture

Character and composition; or some vicissitudes of architectural vocabulary in the nineteenth century

Chicago frame

Neo-'classicism' and modern architecture I

Neo-'classicism' and modern architecture II

Transparency: literal and phenomenal (with Robert Slutzky)

La Tourette

The architecture of utopia.

Notes:

First published in the Architectural Review, 1947

"...It is John Entenza, until recently director of the Graham Foundation, that I am most particularly indebted...The Graham Foundation subsidized and Mr. Entenza almost provoked…Then I owe a particular debt to Robert Slutzky for many illustrations...the editors of Architectural Review, Granta, Perspecta, and Oppositions for permission to publish such material as originally appeared in their pages... [and] Joel Bostick for his efforts in preparing analytical diagrams of Garches, the Malcontenta, and the Palais des Nations…"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum circulating copy: From the Library of Aaron V. Wunsch

Athenaeum circulating copy: "Ninth printing, 1993"

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has [1] loose leaf with ms. annotations laid in.

Potok Collection copy is "Eleventh printing, 1997".

ISBN:

0262680378

9780262680370

OCLC:

9911021