Theorist
Manfredo Tafuri
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Details
- Nationality
- Italian
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- ReasonObservation
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Notes
Historian; Architecture and Utopia (1973; English 1976).
Connections
- authored Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development
- critiqued Le Corbusier
- associated with Neorationalism (La Tendenza)
- associated with Henri Lefebvre
- proposed Marxist/feminist critique of ANT symmetry
- proposed Operative Criticism
- critiqued Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM)
- critiqued Superstudio
- opposes Bruno Latour
- critiqued Alberto Pérez-Gómez
- preceded Bruno Latour
- influenced Peter Eisenman
- influenced Aldo Rossi
Referenced by
- Pier Vittorio Aureli critiqued
Sources
- MIT Press. n.d.. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262700207/architecture-and-utopia/.
- Manfredo Tafuri. Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development. MIT Press, 1976.
- in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 19 of 21
- in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 3 of 34
- in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 4 of 22
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Manfredo Tafuri." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theorist/manfredo-tafuri/. Accessed July 17, 2026.