Colin Rowe
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Colin Rowe (born 1920 - died November 5, 1999, Arlington County, Virginia, USA) was a British architect, architectural critic and teacher. He wrote a number of papers in the 1940s that explored a proportional relationship between Classical architecture and Modernism. Later in life he came to regret his earlier championing of the modern movement. His chief importance was one of influence upon architectural thinking. Collage City advocated a mixture of historical references in an eclectic collage and strongly influenced James Stirling and others in the move towards Postmodern architecture. The manipulation of themes in such collages, were seen as means to enjoyment with only superficial meaning, as both conviction and belief had become impossible in modern society.[1]
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- The architecture of Good Intentions (1994)
- As I Was Saying: Recollections and Miscellaneous Essay (1996)
- The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays (1976)
- Collage City (1978) - Collaboration with Alfred Koetter
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[edit] References
- ^ Curl, James Stevens [2006]. A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (Paperback), Second (in English), Oxford University Press, 880. ISBN 0198606788.
