by: Manfredo Tafuri
Dewey Decimal Number: 720.945
EAN: 9780262700436
ISBN: 0262700433
Label: The MIT Press
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 279
Publication Date: April 24, 1991
Publisher: The MIT Press
Sales Rank: 2338984
Studio: The MIT Press
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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.
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