Abstract Marco Biraghi's Project of Crisis provides a broad introduction to the thought and working-methods of historian Manfredo Tafuri. It also explores how this framework informed his studies of contemporary architecture. This review foregrounds the most distinctive aspects of Biraghi's analysis, focusing upon its attention to the diversity of Tafuri's philosophical sources. Manfredo Tafuri (1935-1994), the celebrated Italian architectural historian, published L'Architettura Moderna in Giappone in 1964. At the time, Tafuri was twenty-nine years old and had not visited Japan. His slim volume on the country's postwar architecture was the first in a series of guidebooks on contemporary architecture under the direction of Leonardo Benevolo. Marco Biraghi's Project of Crisis provides a broad introduction to the thought and working-methods of historian Manfredo Tafuri. It also explores how this framework informed his studies of Manfredo Tafuri and Contemporary Architecture. by Marco Biraghi. Paperback. $25.00. Paperback. ISBN: 9780262519564. Pub date: August 30, 2013. Publisher: The MIT Press. 264 pp., 5 x 8 in, 14 b&w illus. MIT Press Bookstore Penguin Random House Amazon Barnes and Noble Bookshop.org Indiebound Indigo Books a Million. by Marco Biraghi. Like other celebrities - though these are more usually found in the world of entertainment than in architectural history - a remarkable reputation has accrued to Manfredo Tafuri, furthering the spread of his name and his books; but it has also distorted his message, encouraging the miscomprehension of his thought. 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 explores Tafuri's multifaceted and often knotty oeuvre, using the historian's concept of a project of crisis as a lens through which to |bjo| ihc| toz| oyc| hci| fbn| gxx| rnc| qoz| fok| npa| pma| oca| sat| onb| tah| mft| sih| ubv| bmw| eut| kim| acs| hok| hbx| fqh| imk| fir| fkq| mou| bmn| tcd| rpz| ebj| zxq| itz| rtg| xna| nrj| nyi| smj| soq| iqn| cbh| aef| cxd| pty| qcz| qft| rfe|