Reckoning with Colin Rowe: Ten Architects Take Position

Author:   Emmanuel Petit (Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Yale University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415741552


Pages:   188
Publication Date:   04 March 2015
Format:   Paperback
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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.

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Author:   Emmanuel Petit (Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Yale University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9780415741552


ISBN 10:   0415741556
Pages:   188
Publication Date:   04 March 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Rowe After Colin Rowe Part 1: Mannerism 1. Robert Maxwell Mannerism and Modernism: The Importance of Irony 2. Anthony Vidler Reckoning with Art History: Colin Rowe's Critical Vision 3. Peter Eisenman Bifurcating Rowe Part 2: Opposing Zeitgeist 4. O. Mathias Ungers He Who Did Not Understand the Zeitgeist 5. Léon Krier Unresolved Encounters with Colin Rowe 6. Rem Koolhaas Being O.M.U.'s Ghost-writer Part 3: Transparency, Collage, Montage 7. Alan Colquhoun Transparency Revisited 8. Robert Slutzky To Reason with One's Vision 9. Bernhard Hoesli Transparent Form-Organization as an Instrument of Design 10. Bernard Tschumi Montage: Deconstructing Collage Postscript: Jonah Rowen Comparing Comparisons in Colin Rowe Contributor Bios Image Credits Index

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Now, fifteen years after his death, Emmanuel Petit takes stock of Rowe's ideas through an interesting compilation of essays by individuals who have acknowledged their debt to the master, including Vidler, Eisenman, Ungers, Krier, and Koolhaas. - ArquitecturaViva 181


Author Information

Emmanuel Petit studied architecture at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, and received his PhD in history and theory of architecture from Princeton University, USA. He has taught at Yale, USA; Harvard, USA; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, as associate professor and visiting associate professor, respectively; and is currently Sir Banister Fletcher Visiting Professor at The Bartlett School of Architecture in London, UK. He is the author of Irony, or the Self-critical Opacity of Postmodern Architecture (2013).

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