Architecture and Utopia

Design and Capitalist Development

Manfredo Tafuri, Barbara Luigia La Penta

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English

MIT Press
10 February 1979

Theory of architecture

Series: The MIT Press

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.

By: Manfredo Tafuri
Translated by: Barbara Luigia La Penta
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 114mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 159g
ISBN: 9780262700207
ISBN 10: 0262700204
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 10 February 1979
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Manfredo Tafuri is the Director of the Department of History of Architecture at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice.

Reviews for Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development

In Architecture and Utopia... [Tafuri] explores the socio-philosophical impasse in which architects have been floundering since the 18th century. He is not interested in their day-to-day working problems as much as in their relationship to social and philosophical matters... This demanding essay belongs in academic libraries at the graduate and undergraduate levels, where it will offer new insights and subjects of debate to scholars in the fields of architectural criticism and history. -Choice