this classic collection includes the influential title essay and colin ROWE and robert slutzky’s pivotal “transparency: literal and phenomenal.” the book features essays comparing palladio to le corbusier, mannerism to modernism, and neoclassicism to modernism.
mit PRESS: in these essays ROWE makes the history of ideas into a dramatic theatre and he prods the polemics, theories and orthodox histories of modern architecture onto its stage. here they’re launched on clashing courses and their irresoluble conflicts played out among the set pieces of the modern movement.
