SUPER STUDIO

HIPPIE MODERNISM: THE STRUGGLE FOR UTOPIA

This Walker-organized exhibition, assembled with the assistance of the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, examines the intersections of art, architecture, and design with the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s.

A time of great upheaval, this period witnessed a variety of radical experiments that challenged societal and professional expectations, overturned traditional hierarchies, explored new media and materials, and formed alternative communities and new ways of living and working together.

MEET OUR STAFF

We were an architecture firm, founded in 1966 in Florence, Italy by Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia. Superstudio was a major part of the Radical architecture movement of the late 1960s. We attended school at the University of Florence with Archizoom Associati founder Andrea Branzi and first showed our work in the Superarchitettura show in 1966.

In 1967, Natalini established three categories of future research: "architecture of the monument", the "architecture of the image" and "technomorphic architecture". Soon, Superstudio would be known for our conceptual architecture works, most notably the 1969 Continuous Monument: An Architectural Model for Total Urbanization.

Our anti-architectural proposals used grid systems as a way to mediate space.