{"product_id":"i-almost-forgot-isbn-9780262047128","title":"I Almost Forgot","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.Preface ix\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xix\u003cbr\u003e1 Letters to the Editor 1\u003cbr\u003e2 Two Letters to Mark Girouard (28 and 29 November 1972) 5\u003cbr\u003e3 Excursus on Contessa Priuli-Bon (c. 1997-98) 11\u003cbr\u003e4 Intellectual vs. Intelligent (1990s) 31\u003cbr\u003e5 What Did Colin Rowe Design? 35\u003cbr\u003e6 Letter to William H. Jordy (14 September 1954) 45\u003cbr\u003e7 Letters to Louis I. Kahn (7 February 1956) 49\u003cbr\u003e8 Letter to Alvin and Elizabeth Boyarsky (29 October 1958) 55\u003cbr\u003e9 Letter to Alan Colquhoun (2 May 1973) 63\u003cbr\u003e10 Even the Villa Schwob (25 November 1974) 69\u003cbr\u003e11 Program: Fact or Fantasy? (18 March 1975) 91\u003cbr\u003e12 On Bernhard Horsli and the Graphic Redesign of \u003ci\u003eCollage City \u003c\/i\u003e(September 1996) 123\u003cbr\u003e13 Letter to Rodolfo Machado (1 November 1984) 133\u003cbr\u003e14 Postcard to J. O. Mahoney (24 April 1984) 137\u003cbr\u003e15 Memorandum: \"English Architecture\" Lecture Course (24 December 1986) 139\u003cbr\u003e16 Letter to Mark Hinchman (20 January 1996) 145\u003cbr\u003e17 A Nostalgia for the Avant-Garde (c. 1996) 155\u003cbr\u003e18 Letter to David Rowe (20 March 1996) 161\u003cbr\u003e19 William Wetmore Story (28 April 1996) 171\u003cbr\u003e20 The Tyranny of the Coffee Table (28 April 1996) 177\u003cbr\u003e21 'History' and 'Theory': Two Contradictory Categories? (26 June 1997) 205\u003cbr\u003e22 Eulogy for Werner Seligmann (6 December 1998) 225\u003cbr\u003e23 The Existential Predicament 233\u003cbr\u003eEditor's Notes 241\u003cbr\u003eBiographical Notes 285\u003cbr\u003eSelect Published Colin Rowe 297\u003cbr\u003eIllustration Credits 303\u003cbr\u003eIndex 307Daniel Naegele is an architect and Associate Professor Emeritus at Iowa State University. His essays and articles have appeared in \u003ci\u003eAA Files\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarvard Design Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eL’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Letters of Colin Rowe\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eNaegele’s Guide to the Only Good Architecture in Iowa \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Who Shot Le Corbusier?\u003c\/i\u003e Zhengyang Hua holds a Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302935285989,"sku":"NP9780262047128","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262047128.jpg?v=1767729560","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/i-almost-forgot-isbn-9780262047128","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}