Architecture and Utopia by Manfredo Tafuri

Architecture and Utopia by Manfredo Tafuri

Architecture and Utopia leads the reader beyond architectural form into a broader understanding of the relation of architecture to society and the architect to the workforce and the marketplace.Written from a neo-Marxist point of view by a prominent Italian architectural historian, Architecture and Utopia leads the reader beyond architectural form into a broader understanding of the relation of architecture to society and the architect to the workforce and the marketplace. It discusses the Garden Cities movement and the suburban developments it generated, the German-Russian architectural experiments of the 1920s, the place of the avant-garde in the plastic arts, and the uses and pitfalls of seismological approaches to architecture, and assesses the prospects of socialist alternatives.

Manfredo Tafuri is the Director of the Istituto Universitario di Architettura's Department of Architectural History. Jessica Levine is a New York City-based writer and translator. Manfredo Tafuri's History of Italian Architecture, 1944-1985 and Venice and the Renaissance are two of her earlier translations.

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ISBN 13	9780262700207
ISBN 10	0262700204
Title	Architecture and Utopia
Author	Manfredo Tafuri
Series	The Mit Press
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	MIT Press Ltd
Year published	1979-10-02
Number of pages	184
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