Grandpas make a lot of strange noises. There's 'schluuupglubshlurrrpglub', 'creak pop', 'hooonkkkkkkksnnoooortttttt', and of course 'eeeaswoscrreech!' But what on earth do they all mean? Join Grandpa on his daily adventures to learn why he makes all of his mysterious noises. From thanking Grandma for a cup of tea to saying hello, Grandpa has his own unique way of expressing himself. Children will love finding out what each creak and pop means, and will be able to understand their own grandparents even better! Of course, the noises coming out of Grandpa's bottom will also provide hours of entertainment. In Grandpa's Noises, a range of sounds and words coming from body and mouth are explained through a warm, funny and colourful 'day in the life' story. Children look at life with open, honest eyes but sometimes it takes a bit of thinking and code-breaking to work out what's really going on. Vibrant illustrations and lively lettering combine to provide a 'Grandpa dictionary' so that readers, along with Grandpa's cat and particularly in-the-know grandchild, can discover just what his various exclamations mean. Afterall, once you know that 'eeeawoscreech!' is actually the sound of a misbehaving hearing aid, Grandpa becomes a lot less scary and even more lovable!

Colin Rowe has achieved legendary status as one of a handful ofoutstanding studio teachers of architecture and urban design to emergewithin the last two generations. Colin Rowe has achieved legendary status as one of a handful of outstanding studio teachers of architecture and urban design to emerge within the last two generations. His writings reveal the powerful insight and dispassionate, authoritative intelligence that mark him as one of the preeminent architectural thinkers of this perplexing half century. Divided into three volumes, in more or less chronological order, As I Was Saying includes articles, essays, eulogies, lectures, reviews, and memoranda. Some appeared only in obscure journals, and many are published here for the first time.

edited by Alexander Caragonne Colin Rowe has achieved legendary status as one of a handful of outstanding studio teachers of architecture and urban design to emerge within the last two generations. His writings reveal the powerful insight and dispassionate, authoritative intelligence that mark him as one of the preeminent architectural thinkers of this perplexing half century.Divided into three volumes, in more or less chronological order, As I Was Saying includes articles, essays, eulogies, lectures, reviews, and memoranda. Some appeared only in obscure journals, and many are published here for the first time.

This collection of an important architectural theorist's essays considers and compares designs by Palladio and Le Corbusier, discusses mannerism and modern architecture, architectural vocabulary in the 19th century, the architecture of Chicago, neoclassicism and modern architecture, and the architecture of utopia.

This book is a critical reappraisal of contemporary theories of urbanplanning and design and of the role of the architect-planner in an urban context.The authors rejecting the grand utopian visions of "total planning" and "totaldesign," propose instead a "collage city" which can accommodate a whole range ofutopias in miniature.

Collage City ist eine Kritik der modernen Architektur und zugleich der Aufruf, Theorie und Praxis von Planung und Stadtebau zu uberdenken. Colin Rowe und Fred Koetter erklaren die moderne Architektur als Heilsbotschaft und den modernen Stadtebau als Versuch, eine Idealvorstellung von totaler Ordnung zu verwirklichen. Sie unterscheiden zwei Arten von Utopien: Utopie als Objekt der Betrachtung und Utopie als Handlungsanweisung. Sie unterscheiden zwei Arten von Modernismus: den technikbesessenen und moechtegern-wissenschaftlichen Modernismus und einen ganz anders gearteten Modernismus der modernen Kunst (eines Picasso, Strawinsky, Joyce, T.S. Eliot). Wahrend der erste sie abschreckt, begrussen sie die Implikationen des zweiten. Die Collage wird dabei als Verfahren und Geisteshaltung des Architekten propagiert, indem das Vorhandene als Grundlage fur die Weiterentwicklung der Stadt dienstbar gemacht wird. Diese Ausgabe ist durch ein neues Nachwort von Colin Rowe erganzt.