Archizoom associati biography of william

William Menking, who founded The Architect’s Newspaper (A/N) with his wife, Diana Darling, in , died at age 72 on April 11, , after a long battle with lymphoma. As editor-in-chief of A/N, he wrote hundreds of editorials over the past 17 years, many reflecting his deeply held views about how architects could make the world a better place. “Bill believed that architects are really well-meaning, and he inspired people to step up,” said Sharon Prince, CEO of the Grace Farms Foundation, who worked with Menking on a program to eliminate forced labor in the production of building materials.

Menking was an indispensable part of the architecture world long before he and Darling launched the newspaper, the only one of its kind in the U.S. He was an author and curator with a particular interest in the radical architecture movements of the s and 70s. Barry Bergdoll, professor at Columbia University and former chief curator of architecture and design at the Muse

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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Revisits Revolutionary Italian Design through the Landmark Collection of Dennis Freedman

First U.S. Museum Exhibition in Nearly 50 Years to Survey this Pivotal Movement in Design History

“Radical: Italian Design” debuts at the MFAH in February and tours to Yale University’s School of Architecture in fall

Through Freedman’s gifts to the MFAH, and the acquisition of key objects from his collection, the MFAH has established foundational holdings of these now-iconic objects

HOUSTON—September 18, —In February , the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will examine Italy’s postwar explosion of disruptive design in the exhibition Radical: Italian Design –, The Dennis Freedman Collection. Nearly 50 years after MoMA’s defining survey, Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, this is the first major U.S. museum exhibition to assess this now-iconic movement from a historical pers

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Superarchitettura

Superarchitettura is a theoretical & conceptual framework, whose physical definition has been given at the homonymous exhibition, held at Jolly2, an art gallery of Pistoia, Italy.

According to the Radical Manifesto, "Superarchitettura is the architecture of superproduction, superconsumption, superinduction to consume, the supermarket, the superman, super gas".

Superarchitettura is the overcoming of centuries of constant and consistent art vision. It is the overtaking of ancient artistic pratiques in favour of new avant-gardes, the Sixties so-called "neo avant-gardes".

Superarchitettura's movement combined the inventiveness of Pop Art with the dynamics of mass production (for the latter, see its definition according to Mackintosh' ideas and conceptions).

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The Superarchitettura theoretical framework, part of the Radical Design movement, after its beginning, got split up in two main philosophical entities and interpre