radical architecture . italië 1965 -1980
We are showing the installation 'Radical Architecture - Italy 1965-1980' at the same time as the exhibition 'Andrea Branzi. Objects and Territories'. It is a work in progress by architecture ...
We are showing the installation 'Radical Architecture - Italy 1965-1980' at the same time as the exhibition 'Andrea Branzi. Objects and Territories'. It is a work in progress by architecture students at the Technical University of Delft.
In the mid-sixties, the intellectually fertile setting of the architecture school in Florence was the breeding ground for intellectually incisive Italian designers and critics who came together in Archizoom and Superstudio (both set up in 1966) and a series of other groups. It was in this highly-charged context that one has to view the critique by Archizoom and Andrea Branzi of market-oriented visual strategies, and also Branzi's proclamation of the 'right to resist a reality that is empty of meaning' and the need 'to act, to adapt, shape and destroy the immediate surroundings'.
'Radical Architecture' examines the architectural ideas and activism that arose in Italy in the sixties and seventies.
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andrea branzi
Andrea Branzi (1938, Florence) is a designer, architect, theorist, teacher, curator and publisher who operates from Milan. His career illustrates not only his critical ideas, intellectual ...
Andrea Branzi (1938, Florence) is a designer, architect, theorist, teacher, curator and publisher who operates from Milan. His career illustrates not only his critical ideas, intellectual commitment and activism, but also his opposition to over-consumption and the hollow system of 'stardom' in architecture.
OPEN Wed > Sun 2 > 6 / with performances 7 > 11
CLOSED Mon/Tue & holidays
The exhibition consists of writing and models on the one hand and on the other a film that specifically examines architecture: 'No Stop City' (1968), the 'New Charter in Athens' (2010), … This material is surrounded by designs for various utility objects: 'Trees' (2011), 'Animali Domestici' (1985) etc. in which the innovative use of materials is combined with natural elements: tree trunks, water, etc. The various installations all share the same fundamental criticism: objects and architecture are not simply artefacts created by technology and consumer marketing, but must provide an answer to contemporary and real human needs. This thematic exhibition displays the relationship between new designs and what Branzi describes as anthropological themes such as history, nature, life, love, the sacred and death.
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