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REVIEWS: UTOPIA

Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development

MANFREDO TAFURI. The MIT Press, 1976, 184 pages, 36 black and white illustrations

Pages 131-132 | Published online: 05 Mar 2013
 

Notes

1. Nikolaus Pevsner, An Outline of European Architecture (London: Penguin Books, 1968), p. 404. First published in 1943.

2. Tafuri often quotes Massimo Cacciari whose texts exercised a strong influence on his work, including Metropolis. Saggi Sulla Grande Città di Sombart, Endell, Scheffler e Simmel (Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1973). Here the metropolis resembles a (non)place structured by capital to absorb its contradictions. It is, however, interesting to observe how the notion of the pervasive power of capital, in its modelling of (non)places, ideologies, and aesthetics, represents a constant in the thinking of Antonio Negri, who brought these conditions to their extreme consequence in his last book, Impero, co-authored in 2000 with Michael Hardt.

3. Manfredo Tafuri, “There Is No Criticism, Only History,” interview with Richard Ingersoll, in Casabella 619–20 (1995). The interview was first published in 1986 in Design Book Review (Spring 1986).

4. Ignasi de Solà-Morales, “Beyond the Radical Critique: Manfredo Tafuri and Contemporary Architecture,” in Cynthia Davidson and Ignasi De Solà-Morales, Being Manfredo Tafuri, monographic issue of Any, no. 25–26 (February 2000): 55–60.

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