Colin Rowe

For the Australian politician, see Colin Rowe (politician).

Colin Rowe (27 March 1920 – 5 November 1999) was a British-born, American-naturalised architectural historian, critic, theoretician and teacher. He is acknowledged to have been a major theoretical and critical influence in the second half of the twentieth century on world architecture and urbanism. During his life he taught briefly at the University of Texas at Austin and, for one year, at the University of Cambridge in England. For most of his life he was a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Many of Rowe’s students became important architects and extended his influence throughout the architecture and planning professions.[1] In 1995 he was awarded the Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects, its highest honor.[2] He was also awarded the Athena Medal from the Congress for the New Urbanism posthumously in 2011.[3]

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  3. ^ amckeag (11 June 2015). "Athena Medals". CNU. Retrieved 25 June 2022.