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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,
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‘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."
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Architecture and Utopia
Design and Capitalist Development
Manfredo Tafurifor 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
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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,
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