Architecture and Dystopia

Architecture and Dystopia Published by Actar Publishers, New York, Barcelona www.actar.com Edited by Dario Donetti

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With contributions by Marco Biraghi Marco De Michelis Dario Donetti Dominique Rouillard Simon Sadler Massimiliano Savorra Maddalena Scimeni Marie Therese Stauffer Anthony Vidler Copy editing and proofreading Kurt Klein Antonina Tetzlaff

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Publication date: December 2018

This publication has been realized with the support of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-PlanckInstitut.

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Architecture and Dystopia

Published on Apr 14, 2020

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Editor: Dario Donetti. 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 generation of architects, who sought to employ the paradigm of dystopia as both a visionary and a constructive method, one which could operate on the architecture of late capitalism and generate unexpected possibilities for urban planning. Authors: Dario Donetti, Marco De Michelis, Oliver Elser, Dominique Rouillard, Marco Biraghi, Marie Theres Stauffer, Maddalena Scimemi, Simon Sadler, Massimiliano Savorra, Anthony Vidler.