(Dossier Colin Rowe) Cervantes, Rowe, Venturi&Scott Brown; manieras...

Abstract

The article addresses the intellectual figure of the Anglo-American Colin Rowe, in a fragmented way, focusing on some aspects that have marked milestones in the historiography and architectural interpretation of the 20th century. A reflection is established on Rowe 's presence today, among the generations of students who study architecture, to then establish some issues considered relevant. The innovation in the interpretive mechanisms of this author, very advanced, which allow very significant advances in later times, such as the concepts of literal transparency, phenomenal transparency, are analyzed as influences on the course of time and opening of new possibilities. The geographical and cultural space of Italy is another source in Rowe 's work that is reflected on in a perspective that introduces imagology as a previous stage of the mechanisms with which different cultures are visualized, interpreted and received. A centrality that should not be avoided is the concept of using mannerism as a metaphor that is transferred to the contemporary, to illuminate in a perceptive way architectural comparisons and interpretations that are very novel at the time and illuminate their own future. A comparative speculation between Rowe and Venturi, with the interpretation of some of the latter's works, places us in the continuity and current recovery that mannerism as heterodoxy can contribute to the present approach to architecture. Finally, contextualizing Rowe in the Spanish context was necessary to enrich the tiles of the mosaic of his traveled geographies.