Radical Architecture . Italië 1965 -1980

We are showing the installation 'Radical Architecture - Italy 1965-1980' at the same time as the exhibition 'Andrea Branzi. Objects and Territories'. It is a work in progress by architecture students at the Technical University of Delft. In the mid-sixties, the intellectually fertile setting of the architecture school in Florence was the breeding ground for intellectually incisive Italian designers and critics who came together in Archizoom and Superstudio (both set up in 1966) and a series of other groups. It was in this highly-charged context that one has to view the critique by Archizoom and Andrea Branzi of market-oriented visual strategies, and also Branzi's proclamation of the 'right to resist a reality that is empty of meaning' and the need 'to act, to adapt, shape and destroy the immediate surroundings'. 'Radical Architecture' examines the architectural ideas and activism that arose in Italy in the sixties and seventies.