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The Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Mit Pr
Publication date June 1, 1990
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780262700399
ISBN-10 0262700395
Dimensions 1.25 by 7 by 10 in.
Weight 2.65 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $30.00
Other format details university press
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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.

Manfredo Tafuri is the Director of the Department of History of Architecture at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice.

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Hardcover
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from Mit Pr (September 1, 1987); titled "The Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970's"
9780262200615 | details & prices | 7.50 × 11.50 × 1.50 in. | 3.75 lbs | List price $60.00
About: 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
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Mit Pr (June 1, 1990)
9780262700399 | details & prices | 7.00 × 10.00 × 1.25 in. | 2.65 lbs | List price $30.00
About: 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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