Manfredo Tafuri

Author : Marco Biraghi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262519564

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Project of Crisis by Marco Biraghi Pdf

An examination of the influential Italian architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri's historical construction of contemporary architecture. The influential Italian architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri (1935–1994) invoked the productive possibilities of crisis, writing that history is a "project of crisis" (progetto di crisi). In this entry in the Writing Architecture series, Marco Biraghi explores Tafuri's multifaceted and often knotty oeuvre, using the historian's concept of a project of crisis as a lens through which to examine his historical construction of contemporary architecture. Mindful of Tafuri's statement that there is no such thing as criticism, only history, Biraghi carefully maps the influences on Tafuri's writing—Walter Benjamin, Karl Krauss, Massimo Cacciari, and the architect Ludovico Quaroni, among others—in order to create a portrait of one of the most complex minds in twentieth-century architecture and architectural history. Tracing an arc from Tafuri's first articles in the magazine Contropiano to the idea of contradiction at the center of the project of crisis, Biraghi cites Tafuri's writing on some of his contemporaries, including Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier, Robert Venturi, Aldo Rossi, and the "Five Architects" (Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk, and Richard Meier). Tafuri's historical construction of the contemporary, Biraghi explains, is based on the idea that the past is open, providing the present with ever-changing and indeterminate form. There is no contradiction between Tafuri the historian and Tafuri the contemporary critic, only the greatest possible integration. The importance of Tafuri's interpretation of architecture goes beyond mere academic or historiographic interest, Biraghi argues; Tafuri's notion of the project of crisis is fundamentally important in understanding our present-day architectural condition

Author : Manfredo Tafuri
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1979-10-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262700204

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Architecture and Utopia by Manfredo Tafuri Pdf

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.

Author : Manfredo Tafuri
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300111584

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Interpreting the Renaissance by Manfredo Tafuri Pdf

"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. Interpreting the Renaissance is an essential book for anyone interested in the architecture and culture of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Andrew Leach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architectural historians
ISBN : UVA:X030281147

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Manfredo Tafuri by Andrew Leach Pdf

Author : Manfredo Tafuri
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995-03-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262700549

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Venice and the Renaissance by Manfredo Tafuri Pdf

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.

Author : Manfredo Tafuri,Francesco Dal Co
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X001741943

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Modern Architecture by Manfredo Tafuri,Francesco Dal Co Pdf

Photographs, plans, diagrams, and historical and critical commentaries review the architectural developments, styles, and monuments of India and Ceylon, Indochina and Indonesia, the Himalayan region, Central Asia, China, Korea, and Japan.

Author : Manfredo Tafuri
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262700395

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Sfera E Il Labirinto by Manfredo Tafuri Pdf

"Tafuri's work is probably the most innovative and exciting new form of European theory since French poststructuralism and this book is probably the best introduction to it for the newcomer. ..."

Author : Manfredo Tafuri,Francesco Dal Co
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN : 0571145779

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Modern Architecture by Manfredo Tafuri,Francesco Dal Co Pdf

Futurism, Geneva (Switzerland), Genoa (Italy), Walter Gropius, The Hague, Helsinki (Finland), Hilversum (Holland), international style, La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland), Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), Leningrad (USSR), London (England), Adolf Loos, Los Angeles (California), Lyons (France), Madison (Wisconsin), Madrid (Spain), Erich Mendesohn, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Milan (Italy), Moscow (USSR), neo-classicism, neo-expressionism, neo-empiricism, neo-gothic, neo-plasticism, neo-Romanesque, neo-Romantic, Neue Sachlichkeit (New objectivity), New Haven (Connecticut), New York City (New York), Oak Park (Illinois), Paris (France), Pasadena (California), Auguste Perret, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), Hans Poelzig, Prague (Czechoslovakia), Prairie School, Racine (Wisconsin), Henry Hobson Richardson, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Rome (Italy), Rotterdam (Holland), Eliel Saarinen, St. Louis (Missouri), San Francisco (California), Stockholm (Sweden), Stuttgart (Germany), Bruno Taut, Heinrich Tessenow, Tokyo (Japan), Turin (Italy), Venice (Italy), Martin Wagner, Otto Wagner, Weimar Repulbic, Frank Lloyd Wright, Zurich (Switzerland).

Author : Panayotis Tournikiotis
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262700859

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The Historiography of Modern Architecture by Panayotis Tournikiotis Pdf

The history of modern architecture as constructed by historians and key texts. Writing, according to Panayotis Tournikiotis, has always exerted a powerful influence on architecture. Indeed, the study of modern architecture cannot be separated from a fascination with the texts that have tried to explain the idea of a new architecture in a new society. During the last forty years, the question of the relationship of architecture to its history—of buildings to books—has been one of the most important themes in debates about the course of modern architecture. Tournikiotis argues that the history of modern architecture tends to be written from the present, projecting back onto the past our current concerns, so that the "beginning" of the story really functions as a "representation" of its end. In this book the buildings are the quotations, while the texts are the structure. Tournikiotis focuses on a group of books by major historians of the twentieth century: Nikolaus Pevsner, Emil Kaufmann, Sigfried Giedion, Bruno Zevi, Leonardo Benevolo, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Reyner Banham, Peter Collins, and Manfredo Tafuri. In examining these writers' thoughts, he draws on concepts from critical theory, relating architecture to broader historical models.

Author : Manfredo Tafuri,Jessica Levine
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991-04-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262700433

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History of Italian Architecture, 1944-1985 by Manfredo Tafuri,Jessica Levine Pdf

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

Author : Nathaniel Coleman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0415700841

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Utopias and Architecture by Nathaniel Coleman Pdf

A detailed and innovative re-assessment of the work of three architects - Le Corbusier, Louis I. Kahn and Aldo van Eyck - who sought to represent a utopian content in their work.

Author : Peter Eisenman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0847815374

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Giuseppe Terragni by Peter Eisenman Pdf

Forty years in the making, "Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques" documents and investigates two of Italian rationalist architect Giuseppe Terragni's masterworks: the Casa del Fascio (1933-36) and the Casa Giuliani-Frigerio (1939-40), both in Como. This far-reaching study -- illustrated with more than five hundred original architectural diagrams and archival photographs -- employs what Eisenman calls critical and textual reading of both buildings. He attempts to broaden the definition of the formal from a narrow aesthetic and compositional view to include first the conceptual and then the textual. It is through this idea of the textual that Eisenman begins to define an idea of the critical in architecture. Eisenman's methodology is wholly removed from traditional approaches -- social, historical, aesthetic, functional. Instead, the various articulations and openings on the facades constitute a set of marks, notations that provide the basis for his analysis. In the Casa del Fascio, for example, each of the four sequential design schemes records the previous state, encoding the process of transformation in the final building. In the Casa Giuliani-Frigerio it is instead the process of decomposition that generates the facades. Also included in the book are an essay by Terragni and a critique by Manfredo Tafuri. In the end, it is the dual protagonists -- the architect and the author -- who together establish a new theoretical and analytical framework.

Author : Jane Rendell,Jonathan Hill,Mark Dorrian,Murray Fraser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134120024

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Critical Architecture by Jane Rendell,Jonathan Hill,Mark Dorrian,Murray Fraser Pdf

Critical Architecture examines the relationship between critical practice in architecture and architectural criticism. Placing architecture in an interdisciplinary context, the book explores architectural criticism with reference to modes of criticism in other disciplines - specifically art criticism - and considers how critical practice in architecture operates through a number of different modes: buildings, drawings and texts. With forty essays by an international cast of leading architectural academics, this accessible single source text on the topical subject of architectural criticism is ideal for undergraduate as well as post graduate study.

Author : Peter Eisenman,Rosalind E. Krauss,Manfredo Tafuri
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015047967032

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Houses of Cards by Peter Eisenman,Rosalind E. Krauss,Manfredo Tafuri Pdf

A study of the development of Eisenman's architectural theory, taken from the 'texts' which he himself wrote every time he designed a house.

Author : Gail Day
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231520621

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Dialectical Passions by Gail Day Pdf

Representing a new generation of theorists reaffirming the radical dimensions of art, Gail Day launches a bold critique of late twentieth-century art theory and its often reductive analysis of cultural objects. Exploring core debates in discourses on art, from the New Left to theories of "critical postmodernism" and beyond, Day counters the belief that recent tendencies in art fail to be adequately critical. She also challenges the political inertia that results from these conclusions. Day organizes her defense around critics who have engaged substantively with emancipatory thought and social process: T. J. Clark, Manfredo Tafuri, Fredric Jameson, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, and Hal Foster, among others. She maps the tension between radical dialectics and left nihilism and assesses the interpretation and internalization of negation in art theory. Chapters confront the claim that exchange and equivalence have subsumed the use value of cultural objects and with it critical distance and interrogate the proposition of completed nihilism and the metropolis put forward in the politics of Italian operaismo. Day covers the debates on symbol and allegory waged within the context of 1980s art and their relation to the writings of Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man. She also examines common conceptions of mediation, totality, negation, and the politics of anticipation. A necessary unsettling of received wisdoms, Dialectical Passions recasts emancipatory reflection in aesthetics, art, and architecture.