Architect’s Newspaper review: In Florence, an unprecedented gathering at “Radical Utopias”

Saturday November 18th 2017 by Peter Thomas Lang

 

In Florence, an unprecedented gathering at “Radical Utopias”

In 2014, the micro storefront art cooperative Base/Progetti for Art in Florencelaunched Radical Tools, a series of speaking events held in their single window facing Via San Niccolò on Florence’s “left” bank. Most of Florence’s historic Radicals showed up to participate, and this event proved that, despite past animosities, rivalries, and other unfathomable differences, the Radical generation could possibly come together at last.

From there, the exhibit, “Radical Utopians: Beyond Architecture: Florence 1966-1976,” evolved, though it originally was to open in 2016 to mark the 50th anniversary of emergence of the Superarchitecture movement. But for the usual complications, the exhibit was delayed a year. Perhaps this was a forgivable slip if one considers that there were two debuts for the Superarchitecture movement, one in Pistoia in 1966, and the other in Modena in 1967, and that even those two dates were precariously fixed.

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