Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 17:11:06 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: M-TH: Architectural Design and Capitalism


I've always thought Tafuri was basically saying:  architectural practice
is ideological, through and through, by which he means, more specifically,
every fucking brick is complicit with the interests of capital...Santiago

On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Teh Limin wrote:

> I've just read the Neo-Marxist architectural historian, Manfredo Tafuri's 
> book "Architecture and Utopia:Design and Capitalist Development". And the 
> question is what do Marxist do about skyscrapers? Are skyscrapers 
> celebration of capitalist achievement? Would celebrating beautiful 
> architecture mean consuming capitalist ideology? 
> Before anyone quotes Walter Benjamin on the work of art, please explain 
> what he means in plain simple language. I'm extremely lost in the verbose 
> multisyllabic world of academic language. 
> 
> Thank you, 
> Limin
> 
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