Manfredo Tafuri
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Manfredo Tafuri (Rome, 1935–Venice, 1994) was an Italian architect, Art Historian, and Social Historian/Theorist. He is noted for contrasting the "operative critique" of much architectural historians like Bruno Zevi, Leonardo Benevolo, Nikolaus Pevsner and Charles Jencks. He also has been anti-modern and anti-postmodern. During the Seventies he wrote some crucial essays for "Oppositions", the architecture magazine directed by Peter Eisenman. After 1980 Tafuri began studying the theory and practice of Renaissance architecture, offering new and compelling readings of its various social, intellectual and cultural contexts, while providing a broad understanding of uses of representation that shaped the entire era. He synthesizes the history of architectural ideas and projects through discussions of the great centers of architectural innovation in Italy (Florence, Rome, and Venice), key patrons from the middle of the fifteenth century to the early sixteenth century, and crucial figures such as Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi, Francesco di Giorgio, Lorenzo de’ Medici, Bramante, Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione, and Giulio Romano. He held the position of chair of architectural history at the IUAV University of Venice.
Books and articles by Tafuri
- Teoria e storia dell’architettura. Bari, Laterza, 1968.
- « Per una critica dell’ideologia architettonica ». Contropiano, Materiali Marxisti, no. 1 (1969).
- Progetto e utopia: Architettura e sviluppo capitalistico. Bari, Laterza, 1973.
- w/ Francesco Dal Co. Architettura contemporanea. Milan, Electa, 1976.
- La sfera e il labirinto : Avanguardia e architettura da Piranesi agli anni ’70. Turin, Einaudi, 1986.
- Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects, Yale University Press, 2006
