Description:
Manfredo
Tafuri was one of the most important historians of architecture in the 20th
century, and his work continues to influence the landscape of architectural
history and theory. This anthology offers --for the first time --a curated
selection of his essays and interviews covering the entirety of his career from
1964, the year in which Tafuri decided to focus exclusively on architectural
history, to 1994, the year of his untimely death. Essays and interviews --most
of which not previously available in English and translated for this anthology
- demonstrate the unprecedented breadth of Tafuri's interests, which include
topics as diverse as the critique of architectural ideology and capitalist
development, the contradictions of the Soviet avant garde, the urban strategies
in Renaissance Italy, and the politics of Social democratic planning.
With essays devoted to the work
of the architects Giulio Romano, Andrea Palladio, Francesco Borromini,
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Aldo Rossi and Carlo Scarpa.
Complemented by a biographical
essay by Tafuri's wife, Letizia Rapisarda
Accompanied
by more than 700 images