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The Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s

Manfredo Tafuri • MIT Press • ISBN Not provided

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The Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s

Manfredo Tafuri • MIT Press • ISBN-13 Not provided

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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.

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Contributor: Manfredo TafuriMovement: Modernism

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Category: Architectural TheoryCategory: Avant-Garde ArchitectureCategory: Critical TheoryCategory: European Architectural HistoryCategory: History Of ArchitectureCategory: History & TheoryCategory: Op History & TheoryCategory: Marxist Criticism

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