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Title: The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays by Colin Rowe ISBN: 0262680378 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 14 September, 1982 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: exceptionally insightful
Comment: Colin Rowe's essays are exceptionally insightful and truly enlightening. These essays were written decades ago but they're still enormously valuable and still very fresh. The first essay, from which the book takes its title and probably Rowe's most famous, is an analysis of the geometrical and proportional similarities between Le Corbusier's villa at Garches and Palladio's Villa Malcontenta. A brief but dense tour de force. Perhaps his next most famous essay is "Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal," written with Robert Slutzky. Also a real eye-opener. In other essays he discusses the curious relationship between the Chicago frame and modern architecture; neo-classicism and modern architecture; mannerism and modern architecture; La Tourette; 19th century thinking about architectural character and composition; and the architecture of utopia. These essays make you think, look at things differently, look at things you hadn't noticed, and they ultimately enlarge your understanding of architecture and your architectural field of vision. I'm grateful to Colin Rowe for that. After reading this book I bought his three-volume collection of essays, "As I Was Saying." I just had to have more. The essays in this book put your mind to work but Rowe's writing is also quite engaging. He's a genuinely independent thinker and a rigorous one too. These are wonderful essays and the book is highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: The classic collection of analytical essays by Rowe.
Comment: This collection of essays by Prof. Colin Rowe is considered to be among the most important analytical essays on architecture in this century. Prof. Rowe has won the Gold Medal in Architecture from Queen Elizabeth and was Professor of Architecture at Cornell for over 25 years.
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Title: Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier, Le ISBN: 0486250237 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: February, 1986 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: American Architecture (World of Art Series) by David P. Handlin ISBN: 0500202001 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: September, 1985 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Modern Architecture: A Critical History (World of Art) by Kenneth Frampton ISBN: 0500202575 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: May, 1992 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Collage City by Colin Rowe, Fred Koetter ISBN: 0262680424 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1984 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi ISBN: 0870702823 Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York Pub. Date: 15 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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