Twelve Cautionary Tales for Christmas, (12 Ideal Cities), by Superstudio, 1971

September 17, 2011 by fosco lucarelli 3 Comments

Piero Frassinelli, member of Superstudio, evoked here for the first time his idea of 12 dystopic funny fantasies of urban planning. After its first draft publication on AD #12 in 1971, the text was reconfigured as a multimedia slide show in 1972.

SUPERSTUDIO evoke twelve visions of ideal cities. the supreme achievement of twenty thousand years of civilization, blood, sweat and tears; the final haven of Man in possession of Truth, free from contradiction, equivocation and indecision; totally and fur ever replete with his OWN PERFECTION .

Please note that text has been OCR’d and embedded, on the original pdf, so you can select, copy and paste it.

Full PDF download here.

Via: Ezio Blasetti

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