9999. An Alternative to One-Way Architecture

25/08/2016

Operating from 1968 to 1972, with the aim of redefining architectural forms and languages in the dawning era of technology and mass consumption, Group 9999 would come to develop – within the Italian Neo-Avant-Garde context – a new project form, in which coexisted the intimacy of the manual process and the television media event, technological progress and ecological sentiment.
The Space Electronic Discotheque, which 9999 built and managed directly, would be the purest expression of its research: a local venue for the global phenomena of the Sixties, like rock music and underground culture, as well as a personal autocracy for the practical realization of its own technological-Franciscan philosophy.
“9999. An alternative to one-way architecture” describes for the first time the birth and evolution of 9999, beginning from its travels throughout the Orient and the United States, carrying out its initial years of activity under the name 1999, through its participation in the exhibit “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape” at the New York MoMA.

Publisher: PLUG_IN. 2015. Softcover. 15×21 cm. Pages: 160. Language: English. Color illustrated. RRP:€ 20,00. ISBN: 978895459196