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Author:   Emmanuel Petit (Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Yale University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9780415741552

ISBN 10:   0415741556
Pages:   188
Publication Date:   04 March 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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Now, fifteen years after his death, Emmanuel Petit takes stock of Rowe's ideas through an interesting compilation of essays by individuals who have acknowledged their debt to the master, including Vidler, Eisenman, Ungers, Krier, and Koolhaas. - ArquitecturaViva 181

Author Information

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).

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