edited by Daniel Naegele; with Zhengyang Hua

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xix
1 Letters to the Editor 1
2 Two Letters to Mark Girouard (28 and 29 November 1972) 5
3 Excursus on Contessa Priuli-Bon (c. 1997-98) 11
4 Intellectual vs. Intelligent (1990s) 31
5 What Did Colin Rowe Design? 35
6 Letter to William H. Jordy (14 September 1954) 45
7 Letters to Louis I. Kahn (7 February 1956) 49
8 Letter to Alvin and Elizabeth Boyarsky (29 October 1958) 55
9 Letter to Alan Colquhoun (2 May 1973) 63
10 Even the Villa Schwob (25 November 1974) 69
11 Program: Fact or Fantasy? (18 March 1975) 91
12 On Bernhard Horsli and the Graphic Redesign of Collage City (September 1996) 123
13 Letter to Rodolfo Machado (1 November 1984) 133
14 Postcard to J. O. Mahoney (24 April 1984) 137
15 Memorandum: "English Architecture" Lecture Course (24 December 1986) 139
16 Letter to Mark Hinchman (20 January 1996) 145
17 A Nostalgia for the Avant-Garde (c. 1996) 155
18 Letter to David Rowe (20 March 1996) 161
19 William Wetmore Story (28 April 1996) 171
20 The Tyranny of the Coffee Table (28 April 1996) 177
21 'History' and 'Theory': Two Contradictory Categories? (26 June 1997) 205
22 Eulogy for Werner Seligmann (6 December 1998) 225
23 The Existential Predicament 233
Editor's Notes 241
Biographical Notes 285
Select Published Colin Rowe 297
Illustration Credits 303
Index 307