Having got rather tired of the search for truth; we might admire Roland Barthes, but also find his attempt to define love (in The Lover's Discourse) at best poetic, at worst pretentious, lets slide to architectural criticism of the same period with Colin Rowe.
James Stirling has been described as 'Colin Rowe's pencil', Rowe taught him at Liverpool after the war and they became great friends; Rowe's thinking is all over Stirling's late postmodernist work in particular. However it is two earlier essays from this book, the title essay comparing the work of Le Corbusier to Palladio, and the second on Le Corbusier's masterpiece La Tourette, both published before I was born, that we look at for this session. It will transport us to a time when form-making was conditioned by issues of tectonics, context and typology, issues now largely forgotten. We shall also, of course, take the opportunity to brush up on your knowledge of Le Corbusier at the same time.
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