Colin Rowe

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Colin Rowe was a British architectural historian and theorist known for his influential essays on modernism, urban form, and the relationship between classical and modern architecture.

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instanceOf architectural historian
architecture theorist
university teacher
coAuthoredWork Collage City
coAuthorWith Fred Koetter
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1920-03-27
dateOfDeath 1999-11-05
educatedAt University of Liverpool
The Warburg Institute
surface form: Warburg Institute
employer Cornell University
University of Texas at Austin
familyName Rowe
fieldOfWork architectural history
architectural theory
urban design theory
fullName Colin Rowe self-linksurface differs
surface form: Colin Frederick Rowe
genre architectural essay
theoretical treatise
givenName Colin
honorificPrefix Professor
influenced Peter Eisenman
Rem Koolhaas
architectural postmodernism
urban design discourse in the late 20th century
influencedBy Andrea Palladio
Le Corbusier
Rudolf Wittkower
knownFor comparative analysis of classical and modern architecture
critical writings on modernism
essays on modern architecture
theory of collage city
languageOfWorkOrName English
mainInterest city planning theory
classical architecture
modern architecture
urban form
movement critical modernism
postmodern architecture
nationality British
notableWork As I Was Saying: Recollections and Miscellaneous Essays
Collage City
The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays
placeOfBirth Rotherham
surface form: Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England
placeOfDeath Arlington, Texas
surface form: Arlington, Texas, United States
positionHeld Professor of Architecture at Cornell University
Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin
residence Austin, Texas, United States
Ithaca, New York, United States
theoreticalConcept analogical comparison between Palladio and Le Corbusier
collage city

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Sigfried Giedion influenced Colin Rowe
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