Lefebvre attempts a critique of Venice, now let's stay geographically close by, but intellectually miles away, by looking at two essays by Colin Rowe collected in the above volume. The first is the title essay, the second his attempt to decode Le Corbusier's monastery La Tourette, a building Rowe considered an almost primal architectural experience, and far from the advertorial fluff of today. The consequences of Rowe's thinking would be profound in marking the act of criticism as no longer being exactly the same as the act of building, predisposing us to interpretation that would eventually border on the arcane. He started it.
I have the original text for 'La Tourette' first published in the AR in 1960, in K713. The first essay, 'Mathematics of the Ideal Villa', dating from 1947, was reprinted in the AR August 2010. I suggest you use your various means to share the material so that we do not have people saying they couldn't get hold of either text.
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