Modern Architecture in Japan - Manfredo Tafuri painting Wolf von Kries

Wolf von Kries

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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