{"product_id":"i-almost-forgot-unpublished-colin-rowe-9780262047128","title":"I Almost Forgot: Unpublished Colin Rowe","description":"\u003cb\u003eUnpublished writings of Colin Rowe--letters, essays, lectures, and a postcard--clarify his thinking on key concepts while revealing his wit and erudition.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eColin Rowe (1920-1999) was one of the great architectural historians of the twentieth century, publishing the influential works \u003ci\u003eThe Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays\u003c\/i\u003e (1976) and \u003ci\u003eCollage City\u003c\/i\u003e (1978). While his written work was rigorous and authoritative, his lectures and letters were more casual, \"carefully careless,\"\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eboth witty and erudite. \u003ci\u003eI Almost Forgot \u003c\/i\u003egathers 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262047128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368","brand":"Daniel Naegele","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42561868923061,"sku":"9780262047128","price":33.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_4d69c131-5b64-4915-8adc-8d0c548daf20.jpg?v=1670942147","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/i-almost-forgot-unpublished-colin-rowe-9780262047128","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}