This work has been compiled and translated into Persian by Ali Akbari and Mohammad Golshan. Tehran-based Herfeh Honarmand Publishing has released 'Criticism of The Ideology of Architecture' in 176 pages

'Tafuri’s book Theory and History of Architecture' concentrated on the architectural historian’s obligation to alter architecture substantially, rebuking the inadequacies of architects as historians.

He has drawn on the work of Walter Benjamin along these lines, this book also foresees the failure of modernism, referring to modern architecture’s complicity with capitalism.

As Mallgrave and Contandriopoulos said this book addressed not only the perceived crisis of modern theory but also question of whether modernism could in fact be interpreted as a unified body of ideas

Tafuri was described by one commentator as the world's most important architectural historian of the second half of the 20th century.

He is noted for his pointed critiques of the partisan "operative criticism" of previous architectural historians and critics like Bruno Zevi and Siegfried Giedion and for challenging the idea that the Renaissance was a "golden age" as it had been characterised in the work of earlier authorities like Heinrich Wölfflin and Rudolf Wittkower.