The Letters Of Colin Rowe
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Author | : Rowe Colin |
Publisher | : Artifice Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2017-09-26 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781908967534 |
Spanning a period of over half a century, from the early 1940s until his death in 1999, Colin Rowe wrote a multitude of letters to his parents in England and to friends Henry Russell Hitchcock and Ernst Gombrich; to colleagues Stanford Anderson, Robert Maxwell, Michael Spens, Alan Colquhoun, Alvin Boyarsky, John Miller; to architects Louis Kahn and Peter Eisenman; and most intimately and candidly, to his brother, sister-in-law, and nephews in Oxford, England.
Author | : Daniel Naegele |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2023-01-10 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0262047128 |
Unpublished writings of Colin Rowe—letters, essays, lectures, and a postcard—clarify his thinking on key concepts while revealing his wit and erudition. Colin Rowe (1920–1999) was one of the great architectural historians of the twentieth century, publishing the influential works The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays (1976) and Collage City (1978). While his written work was rigorous and authoritative, his lectures and letters were more casual, “carefully careless,” both witty and erudite. I Almost Forgot gathers twenty-three such writings—letters, essays, lectures, a postcard, and a eulogy. Both edifying and entertaining, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, occasionally scathing, they fill in personal details and clarify key concepts in Rowe’s work. In these writings, Rowe tells of the “Corbu superstructure upon a beaux-arts base” that refugee Polish architects and their students introduced to his alma mater, the University of Liverpool, in the early 1940s. He characterizes his controversial essay “The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa” as a “pretty clever but, otherwise, perfectly innocent little article,” and reports that Le Corbusier’s Villa Schwob “played an entirely disproportionate role in my mental life.” Rowe’s voice and opinions are strong in his discussions of architecture, current events, and his own life and work. Each piece begins with a brief introduction by the volume editor. The writings are illustrated by images of Rowe’s drawings, letters, and postcards; photographs and drawings of Rowe’s only built work; and illustrations chosen by Rowe for lectures.
Author | : Michael Merrill |
Publisher | : Lars Muller Publishers |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2020-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783037786444 |
An astounding treasury of drawings and plans from one of the 20th century's greatest architects, offering unprecedented insight into his design process "The importance of a drawing is immense, because it's the architect's language," famed architect Louis Kahn, one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, told his masterclass in 1967. While much of his built work has been heavily studied, this publication chooses instead to focus on Kahn's prolific arsenal of drawings and plans, some of which were never realized. The Importance of a Drawingprovides an in-depth look into the subtleties of Kahn's designs, featuring incisive analysis from architectural experts and over 600 high-quality reproductions of work by Kahn and his associates. A testament to the architect's meticulous craft, this volume is an essential addition to the library of established designers as well as students of architecture. Louis Kahn(1901-74) was an Estonian-born American architect who worked in Philadelphia for the majority of his life. Inspired early in his career by European medievalism and later the ruins of much older civilizations, Kahn was notable for his ability to meld the modernist tendencies of his time with the classical poise of ancient monuments. Some of his major designs include the National Parliament House in Dhaka, Bangladesh and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. Some of Kahn's unrealized projects, such as the Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island, have since been constructed posthumously. Kahn taught at Yale School of Architecture from 1947 to 1957 and then at the University of Pennsylvania until his death.
Author | : Colin Rowe |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1984-03-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780262680424 |
This book is a critical reappraisal of contemporary theories of urban planning and design and of the role of the architect-planner in an urban context. The authors, rejecting the grand utopian visions of "total planning" and "total design," propose instead a "collage city" which can accommodate a whole range of utopias in miniature.
Author | : Colin Rowe |
Publisher | : Birkhaüser |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Architects |
ISBN | : 9783764356156 |
"Transparency," by Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky, originally published in English in 1964 (in Perspecta 8), followed by a German translation in 1968, is one of the main modern reference texts for any student of architecture. Rowe and Slutzky co-founded the architects group "Texas Rangers" at the University of Texas in Austin, together with John Hejduk, Werner Seligmann and Bernhard Hoesli. In conjunction with their teaching activities, the group members sought to develop a new method for architectural design and proceeded to test their models in the teaching environment. This edition of Transparency is provided with a commentary by Bernhard Hoesli and an introduction by the art and architecture historian Werner Oechslin.
Author | : Braden R. Engel |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2022-05-11 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1527582957 |
Colin Rowe is recognized as one of the most influential architecture teachers of the twentieth century, yet he is more popularly known for his critical essays. This book investigates the methods that made Rowe such an influential teacher. Paralleling the promises of the modernists to biblical prophecies of salvation, Rowe led his students into the temptations of modern architecture in order to test their convictions in architectural design. Everything Rowe did taught, and, beyond his published writing, this book uniquely pulls from his personal notes, sketches, talks, and thoughts. This analysis of Rowe’s use of irony, paradox, ambiguity, and subversion will benefit educators and designers interested in the roles of mischief and curiosity in creative endeavors. The book offers a more balanced appreciation of Colin Rowe, while rethinking attitudes to pedagogy, historical interpretation, and meaning in the arts.
Author | : Daniel Naegele |
Publisher | : Culicidae Architectural Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2019-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781683150152 |
Naegele's "Guide to the Only Good Architecture in Iowa" is a deceptive title but it is not a misnomer. 'Guide' is accurate.' Iowa' is fairly accurate. 'Naegele's' is there because this is a personal account, one that makes no attempt to be unbiased. 'Naegele's' qualifies 'Good', "good" being not absolute but contingent and personal and therefore a very questionable qualifier. 'Only' is the title's difficult word. "Only Good Architecture in Iowa" suggests that architecture is a scarce commodity in Iowa, a suggestion with which Naegele would agree if by "architecture" one means high architecture.By 'Architecture', however, Naegele means "good building," regardless of whether or not that which is built was designed by an architect or whether, in fact, it is a habitable structure or even a building at all. Most entries in this guide are concerned either with vernacular works that are habitable tools-barns, corncribs, ventilator machines, silos-or with built works that are not really buildings at all: billboards, bridges, murals, graveyards, landscapes, wind turbines and water towers. 'Only' brings irony to the title, rendering questionable the assumption it asserts and initiating debate within an otherwise matter-of-fact description. Its inclusion in the title predicts the book's mildly contentious, but always utterly practical, nature.
Author | : C. Rowe |
Publisher | : Wiley |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1994-10-31 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781854903075 |
Colin Rowe displays a witty and inspirational view of today's architectural scene.
Author | : Robert Venturi |
Publisher | : The Museum of Modern Art |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780870702822 |
Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Introduction by Vincent Scully.
Author | : Rudolf Wittkower |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780393005998 |
Sir Kenneth Clark wrote in the Architectural Review, that the first result of this book was "to dispose, once and for all, of the hedonist, or purely aesthetic, theory of Renaissance architecture, ' and this defines Wittkower's intention in a nutshell.