archphoto 2.0 #01. radical city

25/08/2016

The city is where Italian radical architecture represented and experimented its theories. Having developed a first survey entitled “Dopo la rivoluzione. Azioni e protagonisti dell’architettura radicale italiana” [“After the revolution. Actions and protagonists of Italian radical architecture”] where I let those protagonists take the stand, for this new issue of archphoto2.0 I decided to approach the issue of the radical city. Or the place the radicals chose for their theoretical and practical experimentations. This change of point of view provides a new reading of radical architecture as it embraces the entire movement and avoids an excessive focus on individual fragments, which I think would diminish the radicals’ theoretical power. The goal is writing a new, as never written before, page of architectural history by using the ‘60s political and cultural context as a departure point

Publisher: PLUG_IN. 2012. Softcover. 22,5×31,5 cm. Pages: 48. Language: English. BW illustrated. RRP:€ 10,00. ISBN:  978-88-95459-08-0