Reckoning with Colin Rowe

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.

Emmanuel Petit studied architecture at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, and received his PhD in history and theory of architecture from Princeton University, USA. He has taught at Yale, USA; Harvard, USA; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, as associate professor and visiting associate professor, respectively; and is currently Sir Banister Fletcher Visiting Professor at The Bartlett School of Architecture in London, UK. He is the author of Irony, or the Self-critical Opacity of Postmodern Architecture (2013).

Acknowledgements Introduction: Rowe After Colin Rowe Part 1: Mannerism 1. Robert Maxwell Mannerism and Modernism: The Importance of Irony 2. Anthony Vidler Reckoning with Art History: Colin Rowe's Critical Vision 3. Peter Eisenman Bifurcating Rowe Part 2: Opposing Zeitgeist 4. O. Mathias Ungers He Who Did Not Understand the Zeitgeist 5. Léon Krier Unresolved Encounters with Colin Rowe 6. Rem Koolhaas Being O.M.U.'s Ghost-writer Part 3: Transparency, Collage, Montage 7. Alan Colquhoun Transparency Revisited 8. Robert Slutzky To Reason with One's Vision 9. Bernhard Hoesli Transparent Form-Organization as an Instrument of Design 10. Bernard Tschumi Montage: Deconstructing Collage Postscript: Jonah Rowen Comparing Comparisons in Colin Rowe Contributor Bios Image Credits Index