ManfredoTafuri was one of the most important historians of architecture in the 20thcentury, and his work continues to influence the landscape of architecturalhistory and theory . This anthology offers --for the first time --a curatedselection of his essays and interviews covering the entirety of his career from1964, the year in which Tafuri decided to focus exclusively on architecturalhistory, to 1994, the year of his untimely death. Essays and interviews --mostof which not previously available in English and translated for this anthology- demonstrate the unprecedented breadth of Tafuri's interests, which includetopics as diverse as the critique of architectural ideology and capitalistdevelopment, the contradictions of the Soviet avant garde, the urban strategiesin Renaissance Italy, and the politics of Social democratic planning. With essays devoted to the workof the architects Giulio Romano, Andrea Palladio, Francesco Borromini,Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Aldo Rossi and Carlo Scarpa. Complemented by a biographicalessay by Tafuri's wife, Letizia Rapisarda Accompaniedby more than 700 images.