One of architecture's greatest living minds.... Tafuri's example has proved powerfully liberating for the historical imagination.
Herbert Muschamp
New York Times
Tafuri is one of the most influential figures in architectural history of the Renaissance and modern periods today... The present book is a study of the process of decisionmaking about building and urban planning in Venice in the period 1490 1620, and of how that process affected the choice of designers and of styles. It could be called as much a work of cultural anthropology as of architectural history...' The approach is structuralist in the sense that it seeks to define common traits that pervade the diverse spheres of politics, religious policy, humanism, science and technology, and architecture and planning.' This is not simply a work about Venice's manmade physical environment, but an introduction to the Venetian Renaissance that is likely to be relevant to the work of any scholar concerned with the culture of that time.
James Ackerman
Renaissance Quarterly (review of the Italian edition)
Tafuri is one of the most influential figures in architectural history of the Renaissance and modern periods today.... This is not simply a work about Venice's man-made physical environment, but an introduction to the Venetian Renaissance that is likely to be relevant to the work of any scholar concerned with the culture of that time.
James Ackerman
Renaissance Quarterly