Transparency by C. Rowe

by Colin Rowe

Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky co-founded the architects group "Texas Rangers" at the University of Texas in Austin, together with John Hejduk, Werner Seligmann and Bernhard Hoesli. In conjunction with their teaching activities, the group members sought to develop a new method for architectural design and proceeded to test their models in the teaching environment. Their approach was based on a knowledge of the objective basics of the modern era and modern architecture, culminating in the essay entitled " Literal and Phenomenal" as an expression of their theoretic principle.

Genres: Architecture

Paperback

First published March 19, 1993

About the author

Colin Rowe was a British-born, American-naturalised architectural historian, critic, theoretician, and teacher; acknowledged as a major intellectual influence on world architecture and urbanism in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond, particularly in the fields of city planning, regeneration, and urban design. During his life he taught briefly at the University of Texas at Austin and, for one year, at the University of Cambridge in England. For the majority of his life he taught as a Professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. In 1995 he was awarded the Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects, the professional group's highest honor.

Reviews

[Nalanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Ted · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of runaround for a pretty simple concept; typical of the era of architectural theory--making a bang out of a whimper. Nonetheless, the concept itself is useful and sound IMO, once you actually realize what they're getting at.

[Pablo Lopes · Rating 4 out of 5]

'It demonstrates the virtues of a transparent form-organization: multiple readings, complexity in unity, ambiguity and clarity, involvement of the user who choses and connects through participation, tangible meaning in terms of geometry'

[wallpi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simple and Deep

[Matcha Junky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tiny good point that got blown out of proportion with hard to read gate keeping language. No wonder why the public hate modernist architect.

[Mafruha Rashid · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved the commentary part by Bernard Hoesli more. The phenomenology of Coline Rowe's writing became clearer by his analysis on Corbusier's works.