Main entry:

Tafuri, Manfredo.

Title & Author:

Architecture and utopia : design and capitalist development / Manfredo Tafuri ; translated from the Italian by Barbara Luigia La Penta.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1976.

Description:

xi, 184 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Reason's adventures: naturalism and the city in the century of the Enlightenment -- Form as regressive utopia -- Ideology and utopia -- The dialectic of the avant-garde -- "Radical" architecture and the city -- The crisis of utopia: Le Corbusier at Algiers -- Architecture and its double: semiology and formalism -- Problems in the form of a conclusion.
Translation of Progetto e utopia.

Summary:

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 architects 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, the uses and pitfalls of semiological approaches to architecture, and assesses the prospects of socialist alternatives.

ISBN:

0262200333 (hard)
9780262200332 (hard)
0262700204 (paper)
9780262700207 (paper)

Subject:

Architecture Environmental aspects.
City planning.
Form (Aesthetics)
Architecture and society.
City Planning
Architecture et société.
Urbanisme.
Forme (Esthétique)
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
urban planning.
form (general concept)
Utopische Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Stadsplanering.
Arkitektur och samhälle.
Arkitektur miljöaspekter.
Architectural design Social aspects Marxist viewpoints

Form/genre:

Books.

Added entries:

Luigia La Penta, Barbara, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 150763
Call No.: NA2543.S6 T3 1976
Status: Available