
Architecture and Utopia
Design and Capitalist Development
Manfredo Tafuri(Author)
MIT Press
Published on 2. October 1979
Book
Paperback/Softback
184 pages
978-0-262-70020-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 114 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
172 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-70020-7 (9780262700207)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Manfredo Tafuri; translated by Barbara Luigia La Penta