"Everything We Do is But the Larvae of our Intentions": Manfredo Tafuri and Storia Dell'Architettura Italiana, 1944-1985

Leach, Andrew (2002). "Everything We Do is But the Larvae of our Intentions": Manfredo Tafuri and Storia Dell'Architettura Italiana, 1944-1985. In: John Macarthur and Antony Moulis, Additions to Architectural History: XIXth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand. 19th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Brisbane, (1-12). 4-7 October 2002.

 
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Author(s) Leach, Andrew
Title of paper "Everything We Do is But the Larvae of our Intentions": Manfredo Tafuri and Storia Dell'Architettura Italiana, 1944-1985
Conference name 19th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
Conference location Brisbane
Conference dates 4-7 October 2002
Convener Society of Architectural Historians, Australian and New Zealand
Proceedings title Additions to Architectural History: XIXth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
Editor(s) John Macarthur
Antony Moulis
Place published Brisbane, Qld.
Publisher Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
Publication date 2002
ISBN 1864996471
Start page 1
End page 12
Total pages 12
Language eng
Abstract/Summary This paper offers a critical reading of the Manfredo Tafuri's Storia dell'architettura italiana 1944-1985. Besides a small body of monographic writing, Storia dell'architettura italiana remains Tafuri's single broad assessment of the polemics of post-War Italian architectural culture. Given its contemporaneity with Tafuri's own life and career, this paper questions the text's 'operative' dimension. It likewise identifies and questions Tafuri's absence as 'actor' within the text in terms of his 'authority' as a writer. Does absence play an active role in the text? Responding to these questions involves an emerging body of ideas attending to Tafuri's positions on the tasks of history and criticism. Post-War Italian intellectual history sheds further light on a dialectic of knowledge and action significant to Tafuri's historiographic programme from the late 1960s onwards. The relationship of Storia dell'architettura italiana to Teorie e storia dell'architettura and Progetto e utopia is consequently questioned. The relationship of Tafuri to his various contexts offers a productive basis on which to assess the history he writes of contemporaneous architectural activity. It suggests, in conclusion, that Storia dell’architettura italiana reflects on two pressing issues: architecture’s status as an institution and the 'active' tasks of history.
Subjects 310105 History of the Built Environment
440105 History of Philosophy and History of Ideas
E1
Keyword(s) Manfredo Tafuri
Italy
architecture
Additional Notes Full reference: Leach, A. '"Everything we do is but the larvae of our intentions": Manfredo Tafuri and Storia dell'architettura italiana, 1944-1985.' In Additions to Architectural History: Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, edited by J. Macarthur & A. Moulis, 82 [abstract]+12pp [paper, cd-rom]. Brisbane: SAHANZ, 2002.
 
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