Tafuri in Argentina

Abstract

Book review:

Manfredo Tafuri, Fernando Aliata, Anahi Ballent, Alejandro Crispiani, Mercedes Daguerre, Adrián Gorelik, Jorge Francisco Liernur, Graciela Silvestri, Tafuri en Argentina. Ediciones ARQ, Santiago de Chile, 2019, 276 págs. ISBN: 9789569571701.

Tafuri in Argentina synthesises the intense relationship, over the last forty years, of an outstanding segment of the historiography of architecture in that country with the exceptional figure of Manfredo Tafuri (Rome, 4 November 1935 - Venice, 23 February 1994). This review, written from Seville, allows us to reiterate the particular Spanish-Argentine link that exists around his figure, within an intense process of internationalisation. With a singular analogy that should be highlighted. His first activities in Spain (Barcelona, 1971; Seville, 1974) were still under the dictatorship of General Franco; and his stay in Argentina (1981) in the final phase of his military dictatorship. In both cases, a vital, intellectual and political curiosity prevailed, responding to the demand of young colleagues of progressive left-wing thought, attracted by his novel contributions in the field of the theory and history of architecture.