HALF A CENTURY AGO, a group of 20-something architecture students from Florence decided to assume the small task of conceiving an alternative model for life on earth. Contemptuous of the long reign of Modernism, which they felt had sold itself as a cure to society’s ills and never delivered, they were jazzed by American science-fiction novels and the political foment of the 1960s. They gave themselves the colorfully assured name Superstudio... — the New York Times
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Lov'n it!
Oh man, that coliseum drawing is so awesome. Reminds me of that other thread "architecture gone wrong"
^Jia, I agree - I'm torn, because I'd love to see a Rossi's San Cataldo-ish insertion in the coliseum, but I know that it's a horrible idea and should never happen. Maybe something like the Hirschhorn bubble, though?
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