THE SECRET LIFE OF THE CONTINUOUS MONUMENT

Gabriele Mastrigli’s talk at CAMPO recounts the conversations with the three protagonists – collected in the book Superstudio. La vita segreta del Movimento Continuo (Quodlibet, 2015) – made on the occasion of the Venice Biennale directed by Rem Koolhaas, who’s debt toward the Florentine group is well known. The conversations trace, each from a dierent point of view, the entire path of Superstudio: from the seminal exhibition “Superarchitettura” to the dystopian visions of “Continuous Monument” (1969) and “Twelve Ideal Cities” (1971), until the “Fundamental Acts” (1972–73), the most am- bitious attempt to address the relationship between life and project through a radical anthropological and philosophical refounda- tion of architecture.