A homage to the 1973 publication of Architecture and Utopia by Manfredo Tafuri--echoed in the title--this book is devoted to the radical experiences of the 1960s and to their consequences for the most recent developments in contemporary architecture. As a response to the profound crisis of Western culture the emerged in the 1960s, radical artists from Italy, Austria, England and Japan called into question the foundations of modernist utopias. They transmuted the difficulties of capitalism into a repertory of startling images that revealed the disturbing realities of consumer society, even in those places still resistant to the penetration of modern architecture, such as Superstudio and Archizoom's Florence. Their model, though exhausted in the space of experimentation, went on to inspire a
Tashkent Soviet Modernism Architecture
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The A+D Museum, our favorite innovative West Coast exhibition space for all things architecture and design, just launched a Kickstarter to finish up an ambitious show slated to open this spring titled Never Built: Los Angeles. The fascinating…
Corporate Citadel
The year is 2030. The city is a miracle of technology, using solar panels and mirrors to create electricity and water. The people are optimistic and visionary, dreaming of a better future for humanity.
V E R U S // II Nymph Preparing For The Bath in the ‘Halls of Verus’ (undisclosed location)
Photo listed in Architecture. Shot taken in Netherlands with Canon EOS 7D.
Old tape archive provided by this link: http://mvdavis.dyndns.org/Public/kmart/
The Royal Ontario Museum formally apologized yesterday for perpetuating racism with a 1989 exhibition, "Into the Heart of Africa."
Tower of Babel: sacred and labyrinthine mesopotamian architecture
The Original 1960s Architects of Dystopian Internet Art - Inspiration Vault - Messy Nessy Chic
Kenzo Tange's masterpiece
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Superstudio was an architecture firm, founded in 1966 in Florence, Italy by Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia. Superstudio was a major part of the Radical architecture movement of the late 1960s. The founders had gone to school at the University of Florence with Archizoom founder Andrea Branzi and first showed their work in the Superarchitettura show in 1966.[1] In 1967, Natalini established three categories of future research:…
Since completing his architectural studies, Clemens Gritl has been designing 3D computer models, reflecting and exploring urban utopias of the 20th century. His work focuses on the interaction between space, dimension, scale, monotony, and materiality of urban megastructures and their possible impact on human beings. We asked Clemens about the
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