Reckoning with Colin Rowe - Ten Architects Take Position

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
• L- Krier
• Rem Koolhaas
• Alan Colquhoun
• Robert Slutzky
• Bernhard Hoesli
• Bernard Tschumi
• With an introduction by Emmanuel Petit and a postscript by Jonah Rowen

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