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.
Introduction 1(4) Cornell Studio Projects and Theses 5(82) Center Binghamton Houston Satellite City Buffalo Waterfront Zurich Center South Amboy New Town The Figure/Grounds Bronx Development Project 48th Street, West Side, Manhattan Manhattan Waterfront, West 14th Street South Baltimore Development Harvard/Charles River Design Project Upper Manhattan Development Strategy Marylebone District Development, London Providence: Capitol District Development Strategy Milwaukee Lakefront Design Competition Burlington, Vermont, Urbanization Strategy Turin: The Lingotto Site Warburg Institute, Pitigliano Boston Redevelopment Firenze: Fortezza da Basso, Stazione Santa Maria Novella, Cascine Three Projects for Rome: Largo Argentina, Quartiere dei Banchi, Piazza del Cinquecento Manhattan: Object/Fabric Chicago: A Plan for the Central Area The New City: Architecture and Urban Renewal 87(10) Buffalo Waterfront 97(24) Nicollet Island, Minneapolis 121(6) Roma Interrotta 127(28) Rome: Piazza Augusto Imperatore 155(10) The Present Urban Predicament 165(56) Comments on the IBA Proposals 221(22) The Vanished City 243(10) A Student Project: Berlin 253(8) Urban Space 261(10) The Revolt of the Senses 271(14) ``I Stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs 285(16) Bibliotheca Alexandrina: An Also-Ran? 301(18) Interview: Design Book Review 319(12) A Memory 331(10) Alvin Boyarsky Eulogy 341(12) Jim Stirling Jim Stirling (1923-1992) 353(6) A Postscript on Alvin and Jim 359(2) Index of Names 361
