The Architectural Review, August 1st, 1996
They've been twisting his arm again. Since 1947, when his elegant, shocking essay 'The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa' appeared in AR, a new book by Colin Rowe has been published on average once every 16 years - most prefaced with weary acknowledgement that only extreme pressure from friends has overcome his reluctance to appear between hard covers. One imagines blood in the study. If so, it was worth his pain and our patience. For here at last are no less than three volumes of Kowe's papers, written since 1953. Decades before Robert Venturi and Leon Krier exposed to public ridicule the prete...
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