Reckoning with Colin Rowe

Ten Architects Take Position

Emmanuel Petit

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9780415741545
• eBook ISBN: 9781317807018
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

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.

Index

Note: Page numbers with f indicate figures.

AAM Magazine 75

“Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art” 10

abstractionism 33

agencement, theory of 12

“age of anxiety” 30, 44

Alexander, Christopher 7

Alfred Ziethen Verlag postcard of Berlin 90f

Allen, Stan 12–13

Altes Museum 45

American Architecture and Urbanism (Scully) 6

Ammanati, Bartolomeo 47

amorphic 18

Analytic Cubism 4, 6

ANY magazine 11, 12

Anyone Corporation 11; Writing Architecture Series 12

Archigram 16, 156

Architectural Design (AD) 11–12, 78

architectural form 129–31

Architectural Review 3, 27, 28–9, 29f, 48

architectural space 131–3

architectural theory 5; complexity of 6

architecture: digital culture in 15–16; Fine Arts and 101–2; opacity of art and 102

Architecture d’Aujourd’hui 78

Architecture of Good Intentions (Rowe) 4

Architecture of the City (Rossi) 5

“The Architecture of Utopia” (Rowe) 156

Archizoom 156

Art and Science (Stokes) 47

art history, Rowe and 41–52; categorization and 42, 44; critical writing and vision 48–52; United States and 44–5; Winckelmann, and 46–7; Wittkower and 41–2; Wöfflin, and 45–6

Assemblage magazine 11, 12

assemblage theory 12

Auden, W. H. 30

Autobiography of an Idea (Sullivan) 129–30

axonometric collage (1979 – 80), Jarzombek 134–5f

Bacon, Francis 11, 13

Banham, Reyner 15, 41–2, 57, 67

Barthes, Roland 37

Bataille, Georges 10

Battle of Cascina (Michelangelo) 36, 36f

Bauen in Frankreich (1928), cover 108f

Bauhaus, Dessau (1925 – 26), Gropius 16, 17, 102, 103f, 118

Behrens, Peter 30

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Mannerism
• Opposing Zeitgeist
• Transparency, Collage, Montage
• Postscript
• Contributors
• Image Captions and Credits
• Index