Radical Architecture
ラディカル建築／イタリアン・ラディカル / late-1960s–1970s / Style / Modern Architecture
Objects to functionalism and consumer society, critiquing architecture's own premises with fictional cities, furniture, photographs and collage.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Speculative cities
- Anti-functionalism
- Vast grids
- Play and critique
Best used for
- Exhibition projects meant to make people doubt the premises of planning and consumption.
- Furniture and photomontage that publish an imaginary city as a starting point for argument.
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Write in manifesto voice, short and flat, set beside the image as a note.
- Composition
- Run one even grid to the horizon and drop small figures to break scale.
- Material
- Photomontage, flat black and white planes, mass produced furniture overwritten.
- Caution
- Borrowing the giant grid imagery without naming what it criticizes turns a stance of doubt into futuristic wallpaper.
- Further study
- Superstudio / Archizoom / Gaetano Pesce
Related entries
- Postmodern Architecture (ポストモダン建築)Same Modern Architecture lineage.Compare Radical Architecture and Postmodern Architecture
- Deconstructivism (脱構築主義)Shared effects: Rebellion / Futurity.Compare Radical Architecture and Deconstructivism
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