An expert on architectural history suggests criteria for evaluating designs and indicates the concepts which link modern architecture to the past

Theories and History of Architecture

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Tafuri, Manfredo

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An expert on architectural history suggests criteria for evaluating designs and indicates the concepts which link modern architecture to the past

Theories and history of architecture

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Offers a survey of avant-garde architecture, looks at the work of Stirling, Rossi, Gregotti, Venturi, Eisenman, Graves, Hejuk, Argest, and Gandelsonas, and discusses futurism and expressionism

The Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970's (English and Italian Edition)

Mit Pr

History of Italian Architecture, 1944-1985

Traces the development of Italian postwar architecture, and shows examples of apartment buildings, homes, office buildings, and government buildings

In this study of the process of decision-making about building and urban planning in Venice, the author examines the intersections of Venetian culture from the beginning of the 16th century to the first decades of the 17th to show how that process affected the choice of designers and styles. Influential doges, such as Andrea Gritt and Leonardo Dona, architects and artists like Sansavino, Serlio, Palladio and Scamozzi, and scientists Francesco Barozzi and Galileo, all figure in this account of the development of an architecture understood as metaphor for absolute truth and good government.

Venice and the Renaissance

History

Europe

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.

Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development

The MIT Press

Tafuri probes the lines between reality and ideology, the gap that avant-garde ideology places between its own demands and its translation into techniques, the ways in which the avant-garde reaches compromises with the world, and the conditions that permit its existence. Manfredo Tafuri is the Director of the Department of History of Architecture at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice.

The Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s

A civil history, a political history, and a history of ideas are juxtaposed with a history of architecture in this work by one of today's most important historians and critics of architecture and urbanism. Manfredo Tafuri presents a sophisticated account of the origins and development of the movements and schools that have shaped Italian architecture and urban design since the Liberation. Manfredo Tafuri is the Director of the Department of History of Architecture at the Instituto Universitario di Architetura in Venice. He is the author of The Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s and Architecture and Utopia.

Pursuing the intersections of Venetian culture from the beginning of the sixteenth century through the first decades of the seventeenth, Manfredo Tafuri develops a story crowded with characters and full of surprises. He engages the doges Andrea Gritti and Leonardo Dona; architects and artists Sansovino, Serlio, Palladio, and Scamozzi; and scientists Francesco Barozzi and Galileo. He records the battle that was fought for architecture as metaphor for absolute truth and good government, and contrasts these with the myths that inspired them.

Venice and the Renaissance (Mit Press)

Manfredo Tafuri (19351994) is acknowledged as one of Italy’s most influential architectural historians. In his final work, Interpreting the Renaissance, published here in English for the first time (the Italian edition, Ricerca del Rinascimento, appeared in 1992), Tafuri analyzes Renaissance architecture from a variety of perspectives, exploring questions that occupied him for over thirty years. What theoretical terms were used to describe the humanist analogy between architecture and language? Is it possible to identify the political motivations behind the period’s new urban strategies? And how does humanism embody both an attachment to tradition and an urge to experiment? Tafuri studies the theory and practice of Renaissance architecture, offering new and compelling readings of its various social, intellectual and cultural contexts, while providing a broad understanding of uses of representation that shaped the entire era. He synthesizes the history of architectural ideas and projects through discussions of the great centers of architectural innovation in Italy (Florence, Rome, and Venice), key patrons from the middle of the fifteenth century (Pope Nicholas V) to the early sixteenth century (Pope Leo X), and crucial figures such as Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi, Lorenzo de’ Medici, Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione, and Giulio Romano. A magnum opus by one of Europe’s finest scholars, Interpreting the Renaissance is an essential book for anyone interested in the architecture and culture of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy.

Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects

Yale University Press

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Theories and History of Architecture

Theories and history of architecture

The Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970's (English and Italian Edition)

History of Italian Architecture, 1944-1985

Venice and the Renaissance

Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development

The Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s

History of Italian Architecture, 1944-1985

Venice and the Renaissance (Mit Press)

Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects