The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays / Edition 1

by Colin Rowe

Overview

This collection of an important architectural theorist's essays considers and compares designs by Palladio and Le Corbusier, discusses mannerism and modern architecture, architectural vocabulary in the 19th century, the architecture of Chicago, neoclassicism and modern architecture, and the architecture of utopia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780262680370
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	09/14/1982
Series:	The MIT Press
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

What People are Saying About This

Journal of Architectural Education

In these essays Rowe makes the history of ideas into a dramatic theatre and he prods the polemics, theories and orthodox histories of modern architecture onto its stage. Here they're launched on clashing courses and their irresoluble conflicts played out among the set pieces of the modern movement.

From the Publisher

"Anyone who wants a record of Colin Rowe's published thoughts on architecture of the last thirty years, had better borrow, beg or steal this book." Architectural AssociationQuarterly

"In these essays Rowe makes the history of ideas into a dramatic theatre and he prods the polemics, theories and orthodox histories of modern architecture onto its stage. Here they"re launched on clashing courses and their irresoluble conflicts played out among the set pieces of the modern movement." Journal of Architectural Education

Architectural Association Quarterly

Anyone who wants a record of Colin Rowe's published thoughts on architecture of the last thirty years, had better borrow, beg or steal this book.

Editorial Reviews

Anyone who wants a record of Colin Rowe's published thoughts on architecture of the last thirty years, had better borrow, beg or steal this book.—Architectural Association Quarterly—

In these essays Rowe makes the history of ideas into a dramatic theatre and he prods the polemics, theories, and orthodox histories of modern architecture onto its stage. Here they're launched on clashing courses and their irresoluble conflicts played out among the set pieces of the modern movement.

—Journal of Architectural Education—

From the Publisher

In these essays Rowe makes the history of ideas into a dramatic theatre and he prods the polemics, theories, and orthodox histories of modern architecture onto its stage. Here they're launched on clashing courses and their irresoluble conflicts played out among the set pieces of the modern movement.

—Journal of Architectural Education

Reviews

In these essays Rowe makes the history of ideas into a dramatic theatre and he prods the polemics, theories, and orthodox histories of modern architecture onto its stage. Here they're launched on clashing courses and their irresoluble conflicts played out among the set pieces of the modern movement.

Journal of Architectural Education

Anyone who wants a record of Colin Rowe's published thoughts on architecture of the last thirty years, had better borrow, beg or steal this book.

Architectural Association Quarterly