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Project of crisis : Manfredo Tafuri and contemporary architecture

Title
Project of crisis : Manfredo Tafuri and contemporary architecture / Marco Biraghi ; translated by Alta Price.
Author
Biraghi, Marco, 1959-
Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]

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Additional Authors
Price, Alta L.
Description
xiii, 250 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
Series Statement
Writing architecture series
Uniform Title
  • Progetto di crisi. English
  • Writing architecture.
Alternative Title
Progetto di crisi.
Subject
  • Tafuri, Manfredo > Criticism and interpretation
  • Architectural criticism > Italy > History > 20th century
  • Architecture, Modern > 20th century
Note
  • "This work first appeared in Italian as Progetto di crisi : Manfredo Tafuri e l'architettura contemporanea, ©2005 Christian Marinotti Edizioni, Milan"--Page following title page.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Critique of Utopia -- 2. Kahn as destroyer -- 3. The pull of the void -- 4. Les bijous dans le boudoir -- 5. Fragment and silence -- 6. Politics of reality -- 7. Games, jokes, masked balls -- Epilogue : the double life of contradiction.
ISBN
  • 9780262519564 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0262519569 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2012046606
  • 99955461772
OCLC
  • ocn819741767
  • 819741767
  • SCSB-14612632
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries