A new documentary on the Florentine radical architecture collective Gruppo 9999 joins last year’s exhibition at Yale Architecture Gallery, Radical: Italian Design 1965–1985, and the Institute for Contemporary Art in London’s 2016 Radical Disco: Architecture and Nightlife in Italy, 1965-1975 in reviving the contribution of 1960s Italian avant-garde architecture groups to visions of an ecological, technologically advanced future. This relatively small group of diverse practitioners would go on to deeply influence a reevaluation of the architecture discipline, its agency, and role in late capitalism. Besides the most well-known collectives, Superstudio and Archizoom, other groups shared a similar methodology of using the tools of architecture to produce critical
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