A conference held in November 2016 in the Alhambra palace of Charles V (1500–1558) in Granada brought together eighteen academics hailing from Italy, Spain, and Argentina, as well as a Swiss Italian journalist, to discuss the impact of Manfredo Tafuri’s work on Spanish intellectuals. The substantial number of conference attendees testifies to the vivid interest that Tafuri’s contribution to architectural history still elicits. The first volume of Manfredo Tafuri: Desde España, loosely translated as “Manfredo Tafuri viewed from Spain,” is a curated set of the conference papers. The second volume, Appendices, contains a list of Tafuri’s publications and their translations, interviews he released, studies discussing his work, and reprints of seminal essays by Spanish scholars.
A constant trickle of publications about Tafuri’s work continues today, almost three decades after his death. Most do not add much to previous studies, while some are almost proudly obscure, as if an...
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