9 superstudio superprojects objects, monuments, cities

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1969-71 Superprojects: Objects Mo numen ts Cities

This ch apter surveysSUPERSTUDIO'Smost provocative periodfrom 1969 to 1971. It was during these years that the grou pgenerated its most renowned body of work. After successfullyformulizing a critique o n design, architecture and the city, theg r o u p p r od u ce d a ~ r o d i ~ i o u set of conceptual projects throughan innovative use of multi-media techniques, en~ ploy ing ollage,storyboard s and literary narratives. The professional officccontinued its design activities, while entering into one of its mostcreatively engaged and controversially subversive periods.Almost all the conceptual production was intended forcatalogues, architecturemagazines and exhibitions. The mostsrriking images produced in the period found wide distributioninternationally, from Europe to the Unite d States and Japa n.

1 The Corrtitruorrs Monrrmmt (storyboard, with anaudio-sli de show, nor restor ed)

2. Hrrtogrdms (architecture of objects, design objectsand I~r terp l~~neta ty r c / ~ ~ t e c t r ~ r e he first film to be producedby suIJensTuolo, ~vithAlessandro Po l i , ~n en ~b erf the g roupfrom 1970 to 1972)

3. Euclue Ideal Cities (architecture of cities, with anaudio-slide show to be re-enacted and recordcd in conjunction

/Lmc, Y W .' &a/-- with the London exhibition.March 2003)&~Z & O c a o i ~ me Each of these three categories represents a concise theoretical

engagement on one of the following disciplines in design andarchitecture: the object, the m onument, the city.

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5 o move more and moreohen 8no when you enter yourncu home and and the helghtol the roomS 7 In to ral~rtylhe emands01 . inlh City. The rearan l or h ~ rong stay ~n fftcethe Inhabilanr of the upper levels The Ville-Mechina Habiles IS rfmplo he hasan e r~ep t~ona l lyTwiceaday,al flred tlmer, all The clly8s a machine rucha large g o d dea Insteadof trying to rult~nhab~tantsf he citq. put8ng the), mach~nehat not even11s lnhabllanls Ihe city lo ts Inhab~ lantr.l~ keheads (ma heopenrngr gwngon lo knmv 11sr z e Its p~peltner.ts rows of everyone else. he thought of rumngthe central space, receive through gear-mechan~rmr.conveyor ells. the inhab~lantr o hetr clrythe,, ca-ordinator.a programme connecung rods. stretch away out of Now.45 yearr later, thmgrare

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