Reckoning with Colin Rowe

<p>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.</p><p>This book unites ten different perspectives from architects whose lives and ideas intersected with Rowe’s including:</p><ul> <li>Robert Maxwell</li> <li>Anthony Vidler</li> <li>Peter Eisenman</li> <li>O. Mathias Ungers</li> <li>Léon Krier</li> <li>Rem Koolhaas</li> <li>Alan Colquhoun</li> <li>Robert Slutzky</li> <li>Bernhard Hoesli</li> <li>Bernard Tschumi</li> <li>With an introduction by Emmanuel Petit and a postscript by Jonah Rowen</li> </ul><p>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. <i>Reckoning with Colin Rowe </i>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.</p>