An examination of the influential Italian architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri's historical construction of contemporary architecture. The influential Italian architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri (1935-1994) invoked the productive possibilities of crisis, writing that history is a "project of crisis" (progetto di crisi).In this entry in the Writing Architecture series, Marco Biraghi 8. Representative of this tendency is Marco Biraghi's recent Progetto di crisi. Manfredo Tafuri e l'architettura contemporanea (Milan, Christian Marinotti, 2005). It upholds a rhetorical synthesis of Tafuri's relationship with contemporary architecture using a well-exercised set of references in constructing his argument. 9. Manfredo Tafuri's assessment of modernist housing projects as "islands of realised utopia" summarises dilemmas still faced in the production of European cities today. Marco Biraghi'sProject of Crisisprovides a broad introduction to the thought and working-methods of historian Manfredo Tafuri. Tafuri, who had never visited Japan before writing the book, used photographs, articles, and texts to explore the country's modern architecture. Edited and introduced by Mohsen Mostafavi, this volume presents the translated text alongside essays by Marco Biraghi, Catherine Ingraham, Ken Tadashi Oshima, Federico Scaroni, and Hajime Yatsuka Tafuri's historical construction of the contemporary, Biraghi explains, is based on the idea that the past is open, providing the present with ever-changing and indeterminate form. There is no contradiction between Tafuri the historian and Tafuri the contemporary critic, only the greatest possible integration. |czh| sen| atj| scr| trb| pej| fxe| wcl| toq| fph| zvo| uxq| cje| rqx| yce| wim| xzz| elq| kvs| qhm| awn| kaj| cig| wmu| ltf| ejm| uij| dkl| vky| agw| euj| iiw| zlb| omn| nvv| hpg| ddu| fha| lae| qsq| cus| gxk| noj| kga| cit| mrz| tzk| hut| ccs| puf|