{"product_id":"project-of-crisis-9780262519564","title":"Project of Crisis","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn examination of the influential Italian architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri''s historical construction of contemporary architecture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe influential Italian architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri (1935-1994) invoked the productive possibilities of crisis, writing that history is a project of crisis (\u003ci\u003eprogetto di crisi\u003c\/i\u003e). In this entry in the Writing Architecture series, Marco Biraghi explores Tafuri''s multifaceted and often knotty oeuvre, using the historian''s concept of a project of crisis as a lens through which to examine his historical construction of contemporary architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMindful of Tafuri''s statement that there is no such thing as criticism, only history, Biraghi carefully maps the influences on Tafuri''s writing—Walter Benjamin, Karl Krauss, Massimo Cacciari, and the architect Ludovico Quaroni, among others—in order to create a portrait of one of the most complex minds in twentieth-century architecture and architectural history. Tra\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195160654167,"sku":"9780262519564","price":25.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/project-of-crisis-9780262519564","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}