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$5.95 ARCHITECTURE Architecture and Ut Design and Capitalist Development by Manlredo Tafust ‘Written from a nco-Maraist point of view by a prominent Taian architectural historian, Architecture and Utopia leads the readcr beyond architectural fori into a broader understand ing of the ation oF aeciter- {ure o society and architects 10 the worklorce and the market= places It discusses the Garden Cities movement end the sub urban developments it gener ated, the German-Russian arci- {ectutal experiments ofthe 8nd pitfalls of semiological approaches to architecture, Saree eae Tie soltea Sporn hapa iran mans oor aha el easel gaed Seca ele ee ate ‘So thei ot rehicaural history, and his point of view is clearly neo-Markist In Archie tecture and Utopia. be ‘explores the scie-pilosophical Impasse in which architects have ‘ben floundering since the 18th century, He not interested in their day-to-day working prob- lems as mach asin thir ela- tionship to socal and phil Sophical matters... This demanding essay belongs in fcadernie Morares at the praduate and undergraduate level, weve it wil oer new insights and subjets of debate to ‘Scholars inthe eld of architec: tural ericism and history." Choice “The MIT Press Massichusets Insitate of Technology Cambridge, Massachusers 02142 eidoy pue aimpomypry Eye] Architecture and Utopia Design and Capitalist Development Manfredo Tafuri for Giusi Architecture and Utopia Design and Capitalist Development Manfredo Tafuri ‘Translated from the Italian by Barbara Luigia La Penta The MIT Press Cambridge Massachuets, and London, England a “Thi printing, 1982 Second printing, 1980 Fiat MIT Pess paperback ition, 1979 ‘one by ‘The MastachostsInattute of Technology li esevd No et of hbk may erode in any Ferm or by any tnene ttn or mechani ncn photocopying recording, or by sny information storage ad ereval $jtem nou pesmlaion in weting from the publisher “Thisis a wanton of Progetto Utopia, published in 1978 by Gul ees Fal Ba ely, 1973 This book was set in Palatine by da typeseting in. {in printed and bound ip the Mucay Pantng Company The United Sete of Ameria. brary of Congress Cataloging in Pobiation Data “afar, Maniredo. ‘Arcitectare and wpa “Transat of Progetto lop Includes bibbosrapied elerences architecture and society 2. Cites and towns ~ Panning 23. Form (Aesthets) Tike Nawswsetasia 730° 75.0128 ISBN 0-262-200393 (hard) ISBN 0-262 700204 (pape) Contents Preface vil 1 Reason’s Adventures: Naturalism and the City inthe Century of the Enlightenment 1 2Form as Regressive Utopia 41 3 ldeology and Utopia 50 4 The Dialectic of the Avant-Garde 78 5 adical” Architecture and the City 104 6 The Crisis of Utopia: Le Corbusier at Algiers 125 7 Architecture and Its Double: Semiology and Formalism 150 {Problems in the Form of aConclusion 170 Listof Illustrations 183, fo

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