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.
Architecture 20th century Italy
Italy
Italien
Italy Architecture, history

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Holdings:

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