Colin Rowe`s architectural dialectics

The article is devoted to the theoretical architectural heritage of Colin Rowe. The article examines the origins of the formation of a scientist’s thinking, based on the influence of two different scientific schools. Below are three of Rowe’s most significant essays on architectural issues. The beginnings of the scientist’s research work which determined his passion for paradoxical comparisons and the intellectual approach are described in the first of them; the formation of an approach based on perception in the second essay is analyzed; the third essay examines the creative and conceptual synthesis of the two approaches that characterizes the mature stage of development of Roe’s dialectical methodology. In each case, the subject of interest is Rowe’s scientific evolution, as well as the significance of his methodology in architectural theory.