Overview

Colin Rowe is one of a handful of studio teachers of architecture and question the modern architecture as propounded by the giants of the early 20th century. Divided into three books, in more or less chronological order, ""As I Was Saying"" includes articles, essays, eulogies, lectures, reviews and memoranda. Also included is a retrospective view of selected work of the Urban Design Studio at Cornell and other projects by Rowe and his students and colleagues. The first volume, ""Texas, pre-Texas, Cambridge"", comprises those items written during Rowe's first extended introduction to the United States (1951-1958), prior to and during his two-year tenure at the University of Texas in Austin, followed by those written while at Cambridge University (1958-1962). The second volume, ""Cornelliana"", contains writings on architecture he prepared while teaching at Cornell University from 1962 until his retirement. The third, ""Urbanistics"", deals primarily with urban design.

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Author:   Colin Rowe ,  Alexander Caragonne
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780262181693

ISBN 10:   026218169
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   28 November 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
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Table of Contents

"Programme versus paradigm - otherwise causal notes on the pragmatic, the typical and the possible; matrix of man; eulogy - Martin Dominguez; architectural education - USA; on conceptual architecture; waiting for Utopia; Robert Venturi and the Yale Mathematics Building competition; Giulio Romano's Palazzo Maccarani and the 16th century grid/frame/lattice/web; the provocative facade - frontality and ""contrapposto""; classicism, neo-classicism, neo-neo-classicism; who, but Stirling?; ideas, talent, poetics - a problem of manifesto; interview - 1989; Moneo's Spain; letter - on precedent and invention."

Reviews

One imagines blood in the study. If so, it was worth his pain and our patience. For here at last are no less than three volumes of Rowe's papers, written since 1953. . . . Three volumes are not enough: I want more. -- Architectural Review

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Alexander Caragonne was an architect, author, and educator who made significant contributions to San Antonio, including his seminal work, Plaza Guadalupe.

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