Colin Rowe and Aldo Rossi. Utopia as Metaphor of a New City Analogous to the Existing One Cover Image

Colin Rowe and Aldo Rossi. Utopia as Metaphor of a New City Analogous to the Existing One
Colin Rowe and Aldo Rossi. Utopia as Metaphor of a New City Analogous to the Existing One

Author(s): Alioscia Mozzato
Subject(s): Architecture, Recent History (1900 till today), Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Universitatea de Arhitectură şi Urbanism »Ion Mincu«
Keywords: Colin Rowe; Aldo Rossi; analogous city; Collage City; Correspondences; utopia;

Summary/Abstract: Collage City by Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter, published by MIT Press in 1978, has been described as one of the four books featured in the debate about the relationship between architecture and the city that characterized post-modern thinking from the early years of the second half of the twentieth century.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 142-158
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English