Modern Architecture in Japan - Manfredo Tafuri painting Wolf von Kries

Wolf von Kries

Mit ›Wie Musik wirkt‹ ermöglicht Musiker David Byrne den Lesern einen außergewöhnlichen Blick in die Welt der Musik – die Mischung aus Musikgeschichte

from the 100-year life to Carl Jung

initiating a dialogue between tradition and modernity

Modern Architecture in Japan - Manfredo Tafuri painting Wolf von KriesManfredo Tafuri (19351994), the celebrated Italian architectural historian, published Larchitettura moderna in Giappone in 1964. At the time, Tafuri was twenty nine years old and had not visited Japan. His slim volume on the countrys postwar architecture was the first in a series of guidebooks on contemporary architecture under the direction of Leonardo Benevolo. Here, translated into English for the first time, the book presents a rare outsiders view