Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970's by Tafuri, Manfredo - 1978

Mit Pr, 1990. paperback. Good. 7x1x10. Shop worn covers and tiny bit of ink to text. oversized and overweight. F63 Please email for photos.

Cambridge MIT, 1987 Tafuri's essays on architecture and the avant-garde, with discussions of Piranesi, Eisenstien, Taut, Constructivism, USSR, Americanism, Raymond Hood, Weimar, Jefferson, etc. First English edition, originally published in Italy in 1980. 25 cm; 382 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in coral cloth, in a lightly used dust jacket with edgewear and two closed tears..

Translation by Pellegrino d'Acierno and Robert Connolly of "La sfera e il laberinto: Avanguardia e architettura da Piranesi agli anni '70" (Giulio Einaudi, 1980). Volume, measuring approximately 7.5" x 10.5", is bound in orange cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright interior. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, is preserved in mylar cover. 382 pages."Offers a survey of avant-garde architecture, looks at the work of Stirling, Rossi, Gregotti, Venturi, Eisenman, Graves, Hejuk, Argest, and Gandelsonas, and discusses futurism and expressionism".

Cambridge, Massachusetts: M.I.T. Press, 1987. Softcover. Near Fine (small bump & curl to upper corners of opening pgs). glossy illustrated white wraps w/ grey spine. 383 pgs w/ 365 bw illustrations. This major work by Manfredo Tafuri, one of today's most important theoretical historians and critics of architecture and urbanism, presents his critique of traditional approaches to historical investigation and criticism in a penetrating analysis of the avant-gardes and discourses of architecture. Tafuri probes the lines between reality and ideology, the gap that avant-garde ideology places between its own demands and its translation into techniques, the ways in which the avant-garde reaches compromises with the world, and the conditions that permit its existence. Interweaving intellectual models and modes of production and consumption, constructs an elaborate network of references, comparisons, and analogies that leads to an interpretation of history as an archaeology of fragments and interpretations… Read More

Mit Pr, 1987-09-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!