By Colin Rowe & Fred Koetter
Dust Jacket:
By Colin Rowe & Fred Koetter
Dust Jacket:
This book on architecture was published in 1978 by the MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England. The book measures 8 3/8 inches by 11 7/8 inches and contains 186 pages. The dust jacket is a bit worn and tattered around the edges but is in fair condition. The black cover of the book itself shows no signs of wear to speak of. It is a bit soiled where the dust jacket did not cover it. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The pages show no signs of rips. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of the book itself is very good.
Contents:
Introduction
Utopia: Decline and Fall?
After the Millennium
Crisis of the Object: Predicament of Texture
Collision City and the Politics of Bricolage
Collage City and the Reconquest of Time
Excursus
Notes
Index to Text
Index to illustrations
Excerpt - Dust Jacket:
Since Colin Rowes days at Cambridge University in the 1950s and 60s, he has become an almost legendary figure among British architects. Having had a profound impact on the architectural thinking of his generation in his native country, he went on to become an equally invigorating influence on architects in America.
Collage City is, extraordinarily, his first book length work of architectural and urban criticism. (A collection of his shorter writings, The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays, was published by the MIT Press in 1976). He and Fred Koetter present in Collage City a critical reappraisal of contemporary urban theories and of the role of the architect-planner in the urban context. In particular, the authors reject the ideas of total planning and total design. Instead they propose collage city which can accommodate a whole range of utopias in miniature. Collage allows us to accept utopia in fragments…
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