Background
Rowe, Peter Grimmond was born on June 28, 1945 in Wellington, New Zealand. Arrived in the United States, 1969. Son of Leslie Grimmond and Dorothy Olive (Perkins) Rowe.
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In Design Thinking Peter Rowe provides a systematic account of the process of designing in architecture and urban planning. He examines multiple and often dissimilar theoretical positions whether they prescribe forms or simply provide procedures for solving problems -- as particular manifestations of an underlying structure of inquiry common to all designing. Over 100 illustrations and a number of detailed observations of designers in action support Rowe's thesis.
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Today's suburban metropolitan development of single-family homes, shopping centers, corporate offices, and roadway systems constitutes what Peter Rowe calls a "middle landscape" between the city and the countryside. While others have written about this phenomenon from the point of view of sociology or cultural geography, Rowe looks closely at suburban America in terms of design and physical planning. He builds a case for a new way of seeing and building suburbia, complete with theoretical underpinnings and a basis for design. The directions Rowe pursues are threefold: what has actually been built since 1920, as simple arrangements of land, buildings, and infrastructure have been transformed into complex multiuse centers; the mythic themes, metaphors, and attitudes driving the production of important cultural artifacts like the home and the workplace; and the definition of design principles for this new landscape. Rowe looks first at how suburban expansion has altered the land, at the new spatiocultural mosaic that has emerged and taken the place of the traditional city. He then examines four cultural artifacts - the house and its garden; the retail realm of roadside franchises and commercial strips, shopping villages and malls; the modern workplace of office parks and corporate estates; and the roadway that has become an essential link to all of these. Running throughout, he notes, is a story of technical planning and mass production where, paradoxically, rational excesses are often cloaked in romantic imagery. He concludes by proposing - and illustrating with numerous examples - a symbolic construct of "modern pastoralism" that juxtaposes the idea of arcadian simplicity and value against the modern technical temperament.
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The development of modern urban housing in China over the past 160 years is examined in this volume. From the beginnings of China's modernization after the Opium Wars to the latest trends adopted after the market reforms of the 1980s, this publication offers a broad overview of the developments in buildign construction and design. Urban housing in China is one of the most important components of China's modernization, industrialization and urbanization. The period from 1840 to 2000 saw great changes in Chinese policy and society and is discussed here in three stages: the modernization of China's semi-feudal, semi-colonial society, the rise of publicly owned housing under socialism in the People's Republic of China, and the rapid growth of a new market economy under Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s. When examing changes in urban housing types, the authors take into account not only conventional architectural history, but also underlying political, economic, social, technological, and cultural forces.
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A civic place belongs to everyone and yet to nobody in particular. In Civic Realism, Peter G. Rowe looks at the shape and appearance of civic places, and at the social, political, and cultural circumstances that bring them into existence. The book is as much about the making and reshaping of civic places as it is about urban architecture per se. According to Rowe, the best civic place-making occurs across the divide between the state and civil society. By contrast, the alternatives are not very attractive. On the one side are state-sponsored edifices and places of authoritarian nature. On the other are the exclusive enclaves of corporate-dominated urban and suburban environments.
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researcher architecture educator
Rowe, Peter Grimmond was born on June 28, 1945 in Wellington, New Zealand. Arrived in the United States, 1969. Son of Leslie Grimmond and Dorothy Olive (Perkins) Rowe.
Bachelor of Architecture, Melbourne University, Australia, 1969. Master of Architecture in Urban Design, Rice University, 1971. AM (honorary), Harvard University, 1986.
Adjunct associate professor human ecology University Texas Health Science Center, Houston, 1977—1985. Associate professor School Architecture/School Public Health Rice University, 1977—1985, director School Architect, 1981—1985. Principal Environmental Planning and Design, Houston, 1985—1987.
Director urban designs programs Graduate School Design Harvard University, 1985—1990, Raymond Garbe professor architect and urban design Graduate School Design, since 1987, chairman department urban planning and design Graduate School Design, 1988—1992, dean faculty design, 1992—2004. Honorary professor Xi'an University Architect and Technology, since 1999. Board member Canada Architect Center, since 1995.
Member United States General Services Administration, Public buildings Service National Register of Peer Professionals, 1996—1998. Honorary consultant Chair Committee on Architect Melbourne University, 1997—1998, 2002. Chairman review committee, faculty architect and town planning Technion University, Israel, 1997.
Chairman Dean's Circuit, School Architect Rice University, 1998—2001, member Dean's Circuit, 2001. Member center artery corridor advisory group task force City of Boston, since 1999. Jury president Olympic Village Competition, Athens, Greece, 2000.
Senior advisor urban planning and design City of Wenzhou, China, since 2000. Jury member West Kowloon Reclamation Concept Plan Competition, Hong Kong, 2001—2002.
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(Today's suburban metropolitan development of single-famil...)
( In Design Thinking Peter Rowe provides a systematic acc...)
(The development of modern urban housing in China over the...)
( A civic place belongs to everyone and yet to nobody in ...)
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Fellow: Institute for Urban Design. Member: American Planning Association, Boston Society Architects (honorary), Urban Land Institute (associate).
Married Lauretta Vinciarelli, October 18, 1993. 1 child, Anthony.
