1st Edition
Reckoning with Colin Rowe Ten Architects Take Position
Biography
Emmanuel Petit studied architecture at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, and received his PhD in history and theory of architecture from Princeton University, USA. He has taught at Yale, USA; Harvard, USA; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, as associate professor and visiting associate professor, respectively; and is currently Sir Banister Fletcher Visiting Professor at The Bartlett School of Architecture in London, UK. He is the author of Irony, or the Self-critical Opacity of Postmodern Architecture (2013).
"Now, fifteen years after his death, Emmanuel Petit takes stock of Rowe’s ideas through an interesting compilation of essays by individuals who have acknowledged their debt to the master, including Vidler, Eisenman, Ungers, Krier, and Koolhaas." – ArquitecturaViva 181
