Order and Disorder gathers thirty years of Manfredo Tafuri's essays and interviews — most translated into English for the first time — into a single 1,200-page anthology spanning his entire career as an architectural historian.
About This Book
Tafuri remains the most consequential architectural historian of the twentieth century, and also the least fully available in English: much of his most searching work has circulated only in Italian, or in fragments. This anthology closes that gap. Edited by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Jolanda Devalle, Theodora Giovanazzi and Marson Korbi, it runs from 1964 — the year Tafuri committed himself exclusively to architectural history — to his death in 1994, and its range is startling: the critique of architectural ideology under capitalist development, the internal contradictions of the Soviet avant-garde, urban strategy in Renaissance Italy, the planning politics of social democracy. Essays on Giulio Romano, Palladio, Borromini, Piranesi, Aldo Rossi and Carlo Scarpa sit alongside a biographical essay by Tafuri's wife, Letizia Rapisarda. It is the first volume in a series produced with the Laboratory of Theory and Project of Domestic Space.
Key Features
- 1,200 pages of essays and interviews spanning Tafuri's full working life, 1964–1994
- Edited by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Jolanda Devalle, Theodora Giovanazzi and Marson Korbi
- Most texts translated into English for the first time
- Essays on Giulio Romano, Andrea Palladio, Francesco Borromini, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Aldo Rossi and Carlo Scarpa
- A biographical essay by Letizia Rapisarda, and more than 700 images
What You'll Discover
- Tafuri's critique of architectural ideology and its entanglement with capitalist development, developed across three decades rather than fixed in one famous text
- His readings of the Soviet avant-garde, and the contradictions he locates inside its revolutionary claims
- The Renaissance essays — Romano, Palladio, Borromini, Piranesi — that dismantle the idea of a golden age
- How the interviews shift register from the written work, and what Tafuri says plainly there that the essays approach obliquely
About the Author
Manfredo Tafuri (1935–1994) was an Italian architect, historian and critic whose work reshaped architectural history as a discipline. The volume is edited by Pier Vittorio Aureli, architect, co-founder of Dogma and professor at EPFL; Jolanda Devalle and Theodora Giovanazzi, architects and PhD candidates at EPFL; and Marson Korbi, architect and postdoctoral researcher at EPFL.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Dimensions: 14.8 × 21.0 cm
- Pages: 1200
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783035628203
- Publisher: Birkhäuser
Perfect For: Architectural historians and theorists, anyone teaching or studying critical theory in architecture, and readers who have worked through Architecture and Utopia and want the rest of the argument.