Ignasi de sola morales biography of michael

  • Differences brings together ten essays written over the past decade by the distinguished Spanish architect and theorist Ignasi de Sola-Morales.
  • Contents Ignasi de Sola-Morales, Being Manfredo Tafuri Luisa Passerini, History as Project: An Interview with Manfredo Tafuri.
  • This book presents major discourses in architectural theory and design in a debate-like format, integrating a series of edited texts across architectural.

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    In its eleven-year history, Oppositions, the journal of the New York-based Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS), had an impact far beyond what its modest cover might suggest. Indeed, Oppositions set the agenda, introduced the key players, and published the seminal pieces in the theorization of architecture in the last twenty years. It is a testament to the enduring importance of the journal that its issues are still highly sought after today, prized (and priced) as collector’s items, and found behind the desk at virtually every architectural library.
    Oppositions Reader collects the most important essays from 26 issues of Oppositions. Essays from the editors of the seriesPeter Eisenman, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas, Anthony Vidler, and Kurt Forester are included, along with texts by such noted architect, theorists, and historians as Aldo Rossi, Alan Colquhoun, Leon Krier, Denise Scott Brown, Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas, Mary McLeod, Georgio Ciuc

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    ANY 25/26 | Being Manfredo Tafuri

    February 2000

    Guest Editor: Ignasi de Sola-Morales

    Contents
    Ignasi de Sola-Morales, Being Manfredo Tafuri
    Luisa Passerini, History as Project: An Interview with Manfredo Tafuri
    Paul Henninger, One Portrait of Tafuri: An Interview with Georges Teyssot
    Pierluigi Nicolin, Tafuri and "The Analogous City"
    Evelina Calvi, Oublier Tafuri?
    Anthony Vidler, Disenchanted Histories: The Legacy of Manfredo Tafuri
    K. Michael Hays, Tafuri's Ghost
    Jean-Louis Cohen, "Experimental" Architecture and Radical History
    Mark Wigley, Post-Operative History
    Ignasi de Sola-Morales, Beyond the Radical Critique: Manfredo Tafuri and Contemporary Architecture
    Kurt W. Forster, No Escape from History, No Reprieve from Utopia, No Nothing: An Addio to the Anxious Historian Manfredo Tafuri
    Peter Eisenman, The Wicked Critic

    Correspondences
    Cynthia Davidson, Dear Reader
    Christian Girard, Letter from Paris
    Wes Jones, The Nelsons

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    Differences

    Following traces that are neither modern nor postmodern, Ignasi deSolà-Morales opens a deterritorialized territory harboring richpossibilities for architectural theory and practice. Philosophically astute and critically savvy, Differences resists the fashionableallure of nihilism bygd discerning creative resources circulating in thechaotic currents of contemporary culture. ~Mark C. Taylor, Preston S. Parish Professor of Humanities, Williams College
    Ignasi de Solà-Morales' term starting points perfectly captures the light and acute temperament of these essays. With the nimbleease of Deleuzean vectors, these writings början from contemporary practiceand move into fresh horizons of architectural thinking. At a time when mostarchitectural writing seems to fall within either the limits of journalismor the rigorous territories of academic research, this collection of textsdraws an unfrequented path of discourse, a topography that becomes aninvitation to approach a