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Seller: Magers and Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Unpublished writings of Colin Rowe-letters, essays, lectures, and a postcard-clarify his thinking on key concepts while revealing his wit and erudition.Unpublished writings of Colin Rowe-letters, essays, lectures, and a postcard-clarify his thinking on key concepts while revealing his wit and erudition.Colin Rowe (1920-1999) was one of the great architectural historians of the twentieth century, publishing the influential works The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays (1976) and Collage City (1978). While his written work was rigorous and authoritative, his lectures and letters were more casual, "carefully careless," both witty and erudite. I Almost Forgot gathers twenty-three such writings-letters, essays, lectures, a postcard, and a eulogy. Both edifying and entertaining, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, occasionally scathing, they fill in personal details and clarify key concepts in Rowe's work.In these writings, Rowe tells of the "Corbu superstructure upon a beaux-arts base" that refugee Polish architects and their students introduced to his alma mater, the University of Liverpool, in the early 1940s. He characterizes his controversial essay "The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa" as a "pretty clever but, otherwise, perfectly innocent little article," and reports that Le Corbusier's Villa Schwob "played an entirely disproportionate role in my mental life." Rowe's voice and opinions are strong in his discussions of architecture, current events, and his own life and work. Each piece begins with a brief introduction by the volume editor. The writings are illustrated by images of Rowe's drawings, letters, and postcards; photographs and drawings of Rowe's only built work; and illustrations chosen by Rowe for lectures. "A book of unpublished writings (essays, lectures and some ephemera including letters and postcards) by the distinguished architectural historian Colin Rowe"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Language: English
Published by Culicidae Press, Ames, Iowa, 2019
ISBN 10: 1683150155 ISBN 13: 9781683150152
Seller: The Haunted Bookshop, LLC, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright; no owners' marks; soft cover has nicks and chips at spine ends and two corners, otherwise excellent. 274pp, illus.
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Seller: Bill & Ben Books, Faringdon, United Kingdom
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: New. Legendary architect, historian and critic, Colin Rowe taught Architecture and Urban Design at Liverpool University, the University of Texas at Austin, Cambridge University and for another 30 years at Cornell. From the late 1940s through to the early 1960s he wrote a uniquely perceptive series of articles on architecture that remains seminal to the discipline today. His books include The Mathematics of the Ideal villa and Other Essays, The Architecture of Good Intentions, the volume As I Was Saying, and most notably, Collage City, 1978, written with Fred Koetter. The recipient of the profession's highest honours, he was awarded the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education in 1985; and the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1995. Rowe was an inveterate letter writer. From his student days at Liverpool in the early 1940s until his death in Washington in 1999, he wrote innumerable letters to his parents, renowned architects and scholars, friends, colleagues and former students on both sides of the Atlantic; and most consistently and intimately to his brother, David, and sister in law, Dorothy, in England.Informal and elegant ruminations, they illuminate moments in Rowe's migratory life, addressing a wide range of subjects from books, furniture, landscapes, politics, history, and education, to architecture and the urban condition and a host of other engaging topics. Rich with wit and an astonishing array of scholarship, each is written in the incomparable style for which Rowe has long been famous, making evident his love affair with words and revealing a man of great humour, warmth and charm. This selection of more than 250 of the surviving Rowe letters is edited and introduced by Daniel Naegele.
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Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
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Language: English
Published by MIT Press 2022-12-20, 2022
ISBN 10: 0262047128 ISBN 13: 9780262047128
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Brand New. 320 pages. 9.50x7.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.
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Published by Stuttgart, Kohlhammer 1888., 1888
Seller: Antiquariat Les-art, Burgstetten, Germany
First Edition
8°. XII/448 S. mit einer Textabbildung und drei Tafeln. Hldr. der Zeit mit handschriftlichem Rückenschildchen, marmorierter Schnitt. Einband vor allem am Rücken und an den Kanten stark berieben, Kapitale ausgefranst. Innen abgesehen von mäßiger papierbedingter Bräunung, wohlerhaltenes Exemplar. Erste Ausgabe. Müßte wohl neu aufgebunden werden. Sprache: de.
Published by Charles University Karolinum Press, Prague, 2019
ISBN 10: 8024644487 ISBN 13: 9788024644486
Seller: Antiquariat Puderbach, Dresden, Germany
Paperback 26x20 cm, 141 pages. Gewicht in Gramm: 550.
Language: English
Published by Artifice, London, 2016
Seller: Matthew Butler Books PBFA, Badminton, United Kingdom
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. With EX Libris of the late Mark Girouard, architectural historian and author. Bulky quarto, board covers, pp.560. B/w photographs. Over 300 letters from the architectural critic. Original documents with explanatory notes.
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Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd., London/Washington DC, 1998
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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. (Vol. 22, No. 2). [nice clean copy, just a tiny bit of edgewear, minor scuffing to rear cover]. (B&W photographs) The bulk of this issue is devoted to two topics. "Photography and Architecture" features a guest editorial and five articles focusing on that topic, including an interview with Ezra Stoller, and discussions of Walter Benjamin, Le Corbusier, and Violett-le-Duc. The section on Ansel Adams features four articles about his work: "Ansel Adams, The Zone System and the California School of Fine Arts"; "Ansel Adams and Louise Arner Boyd: A Camera Tells a Story"; "Ansel Adams and Spanish Colonial Arts"; and "Ansel Adams and Objectivism: Making a Photograph with Group f/64." Additionally, this issue contains: "The Objectivism of Edward Weston: An Attempt at a Functional Definition of the Art of the Camera," an essay written by Kenneth Rexroth in 1931 but published here for the first time; a biographical article on photographer Harry K. Shigeta of Chicago, by Christian A. Peterson; and an article about the photography, by Margaret Bourke-White and Henri Cartier-Bresson, of Gandhi's funeral in 1948.