Claypool, ME;
(2016)
The Consequences of Dialogue and the Virgilian Nostalgia of Colin Rowe.
Architecture and Culture
, 4
(3)
pp. 359-367.
10.1080/20507828.2016.1239892.
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Abstract
At the time Colin Rowe published the now-famous essay “The Mathematics of the Idea Villa” (1947) he was close to completing his M.A. in the History of Art as Rudolf Wittkower’s only student at the Warburg Institute in London. Rowe’s unpublished master’s thesis, titled “The Theoretical Drawings of Inigo Jones: Their Sources and Scope,” demonstrates how Rowe began to explore the method of comparative dialogical technique through the use of literary texts, images, and diagrams in the construction of the history of architecture as myth. While it has been widely acknowledged that Rowe is an important source on the work of Jones, Rowe’s development and application of the technique of dialogical construction – often relying less on true factual evidence than on imagination – has rarely been examined. This Rowe-ian myth will be viewed as an act of dialogical construction: a theoretical positioning of the role of history within the discipline of architecture.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | The Consequences of Dialogue and the Virgilian Nostalgia of Colin Rowe |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1080/20507828.2016.1239892 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2016.1239892 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | Copyright © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Architecture and Culture on 11 November 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/20507828.2016.1239892 |
Keywords: | Colin Rowe, comparative method, diagram, visual, history |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1528670 |
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