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