Architecture + Philosophy: Manfredo Tafuri

DigitalFUTURES x FIU DDes: Architecture Philosophy | Manfredo Tafuri Guest: Pippo Ciorra and Luisa Lorenza Corna Sunday, 16 April, 2023, 10am EST *Please check time in respective time-zones -------- What can architects learn from philosophy? with Pippo Ciorra and Luisa Lorenza Corna Manfredo Tafuri (1935-94) was an Italian Marxist historian and theorist, and Professor of Architecture at IUAV in Venice. He was a member of the Italian Communist Party, and took a radical, philosophically informed approach to architectural history. He is often associated with the Italian philosopher, Massimo Cacciari. Pippo Ciorra is an Italian historian, Professor of Design and Theory at the University of Camerino, Chair of Doctoral Studies at IUAV, and curator of architecture at Rome’s MAXXI Museum. Luisa Lorenza Corna is design historian and a Leverhulme postdoctoral researcher at Birkbeck College, University of London She wrote her PhD on Manfredo Tafuri.