Colin Rowe (born 1920 - died November 5, 1999, Arlington County, Virginia, USA) was a British architect, architectural critic and teacher. He wrote a number of papers in the 1940s that explored a proportional relationship between Classical architecture and Modernism. Later in life he came to regret his earlier championing of the modern movement. His chief importance was one of influence upon architectural thinking. Collage City advocated a mixture of historical references in an eclectic collage and strongly influenced James Stirling and others in the move towards Postmodern architecture. The manipulation of themes in such collages, were seen as means to enjoyment with only superficial meaning, as both conviction and belief had become impossible in modern society.^[1] 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time. ... November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 56 days remaining. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Old Farts by the Sometimes-United Nations. ... Arlington County is an urban county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the U.S., directly across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. Originally part of the District of Columbia, the land now comprising the county was retroceded to Virginia in a July 9, 1846 act of Congress... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ... From the point of view of modern times, the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean sometimes seem to blend smoothly into one melange we call the Classical. ... Modern architecture is a broad term given to a number of building styles with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and the elimination of ornament, that first arose around 1900. ... Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University. ... San Antonio Public Library, Texas. ...

Work

• The architecture of Good Intentions (1994)
• As I Was Saying: Recollections and Miscellaneous Essay (1996)
• The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays (1976)
• Collage City (1978) - Collaboration with Alfred Koetter

See also

• The Texas Rangers

The Texas Rangers refers to a group of architects who taught at the Texas School of Architecture in Austin, Texas, from 1951 and 1957. ...

References

• Cornell news obituary]