edited by Alexander Caragonne Colin Rowe has achieved legendary status as one of a handful of outstanding studio teachers of architecture and urban design to emerge within the last two generations. His writings reveal the powerful insight and dispassionate, authoritative intelligence that mark him as one of the preeminent architectural thinkers of this perplexing half century.Divided into three volumes, in more or less chronological order, As I Was Saying includes articles, essays, eulogies, lectures, reviews, and memoranda. Some appeared only in obscure journals, and many are published here for the first time.
Colin Rowe has achieved legendary status as one of a handful ofoutstanding studio teachers of architecture and urban design to emergewithin the last two generations.
Editors Note ix Introduction 1(2) Two Italian Encounters 3(8) Henry-Russell Hitchcock 11(14) Texas and Mrs. Harris 25(16) Comments of Harwell Hamilton Harris to the Faculty, May 25, 1954 41(14) Lockhart, Texas 55(18) Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal, Part II 73(34) Review: Forms and Functions of Twentieth Century Architecture 107(16) Talbot Hamlin Review: Roots of Contemporary American Architecture 123(8) Lewis Mumford Cambridge 1958-1962 131(4) Utopian Architect 135(8) Le Corbusier The Blenheim of the Welfare State 143(10) A Vote of Thanks 153(6) Review: Student Work of the Architectural Association 159(8) Review: A Testament 167(10) Frank Lloyd Wright Review: Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 177(8) Henry-Russell Hitchcock Sidgwick Avenue 185(10) Index of Names 195
