Main entry:

Tafuri, Manfredo.

Title & Author:

History of Italian architecture, 1944-1985 / Manfredo Tafuri ; translated by Jessica Levine.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1989.

Description:

ix, 269 pages, [120] pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Storia dell'architettura italiana, 1944-1985.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-261) and index.
The years of reconstruction -- Aufkläruyng I: Adriano Olivetti and the communitas of the intellect -- The myth of equilibrium: the Vanoni plan and INA-Casa's second seven years -- Aufklärung II: The museum, history, and metaphor (1951-1967) -- New crises and new strategies (1968-1975) -- Two "mastes": Carlo Scarpa ; and Giuseppe Samona -- The fragment and the city: research and exempla of the seventies -- Architecture as dialogue and architecture as "civil invective" -- Rigorism and abstinence: toward the 1980s -- Structural tansformations and new experiences in planning -- The paradigms of pluralsim -- Venice 1985: the architecture Biennale -- "Gay errancy": hypermoderns (postmoderns) -- The threshold and the problem.
Translation of: Storia dell'architettura Italiana 1944-1985.

Summary:

Traces the development of Italian postwar architecture, and shows examples of apartment buildings, homes, office buildings, and government buildings.

ISBN:

0262200678
9780262200677
9780262700436
0262700433

Subject:

Architecture Italy History 20th century.
Architecture Italy.
Architecture Italie Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Italie.
21.62 history of architecture.
Architecture
Architektur
Bouwkunst.
Italy
Italien
Italy Architecture, history

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 44397
Call No.: ID:89-B3957
Status: Available