September 17, 2011
Twelve Cautionary Tales for Christmas, (12 Ideal Cities), by Superstudio, 1971
by fosco lucarelli
architecture, contemporary art, illustrations, literature, past futures, politics, urban chronicles, visions
Piero Frassinelli, member of Superstudio, evoke 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 .
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Full PDF download here.
Via: Ezio Blasetti
[...] duality was the guideline of some radical projects of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Superstudio’s Twelve Ideal Cities, their satirical vision of humanity’s search for an ideal world or Archizoom’s No-Stop [...]