#utopianarchitecture

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paolo soleri - a detailed proto-arcosanti hand drawing executed for arcology by soleri studios, 1968

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MORE SUPERSTUDIO

Superstudio (1969) |  Continuous Monument: An Architectural Model for Total Urbanization

Founded 1966 in Florence, Italy, Superstudio, a group of radical architects, proposed a gridded superstructure that would encircle the world. Il Monumento Continuo would eventually cover the entire surface of the planet, leaving the Earth as featureless as the smoothest desert, or, more precisely as a recklessly rough western suburb.

This exaggeration commented on the way globalisation was flooding the world after World War II. The bigger message referred to the way the world was developing at the time: turning into one anonymous megastructure, with local cultures stripped away.

In the past decades progressive architects and town planers have luckily moved away from a universal thinking in megastructures towards green architecture and concepts that engage with the local community and the environment. Green architecture is the practice of designing and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building’s life-cycle.

Superstudio | Quaderna Furniture (1969) 

Superstudio (1971) | Fa bene design

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Paolo Soleri - Arcosanti, early architetural drawing

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Rare colour of sky! 💙 #Berlin #vitaminddeficiency #utopianarchitecture #high (at Berlin, Germany)

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detail of Arcosanti -an experimental town created by utopian architect /philosopher /artist Palo Soleri in the desert of Arizona to embody Arcology, the fusion of architecture & ecology. . . photo @debbiecarlos #palosoleri #arcosanti #earthworks #utopianarchitecture #arcology

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Hoax Architecture (paper architecture - utopian architecture)

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“Signs ... ‘win more people to independence than will battles’.” (Auslander 227)

“Architecture was understood as a means of public education; buildings and monuments were to promote virtue.Their materiality and scale were understood to give them particular powers. “ (233)

“Boullée’s design of 1792 for the Palais national ... demonstrate[s] efforts to embody the political principles of the Revolution in architecture. ... The building was characterized by sharply drawn geometric forms ... representing the principle of the equality of all representatives of the nation...  While full of references to the classical world, the design is wholly forward-looking and original: a new building for a new form of government.” (234)