Architecture and utopia: Design and capitalist development - Hardcover

Manfredo Tafuri

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Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

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Text: English, Italian (translation)

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ISBN 10:  0262700204 ISBN 13:  9780262700207
Publisher: The MIT Press, 1979
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