Reckoning with Colin Rowe

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<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>L¿ 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 cr