B°Fex. Auworkshop.com. . : Paul Menand Design. Nendo.jp 2013 now maintenance mode. /// Louis 2013. NOE DUCHAUFOUR LAWRANCE - Designer / Architecte d'intérieur. LE RADICALISME EN ARCHITECTURE. Superstudio / Design museum. Founded in Florence by a group of radical young architects in 1966, SUPERSTUDIO was at the heart of the architectural and design avant garde until its dissolution in the late 1970s. Through photo-collages, films and exhibitions, it critiqued the modernist doctrines that had dominated 20th century design thinking.
"In the beginning we designed objects for production, designs to be turned into wood and steel, glass and brick or plastic - then we produced neutral and usable designs, then finally negative utopias, forewarning images of the horrors which architecture was laying in store for us with its scientific methods for the perpetuation of existing models. " This was how Superstudio described its work in a catalogue the group produced to accompany the 1973 exhibition Fragments From A Personal Museum at the Neue Galerie in Graz, Austria. Superstudio was then at the fulcrum of avant garde thinking in architecture and design. Superstudio was not alone in its concerns.
. © Design Museum. Archigram / - Design museum. ARCHIGRAM dominated the architectural avant garde in the 1960s and early 1970s with its playful, pop-inspired visions of a technocratic future after its formation in 1961 by a group of young London architects – Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb. “A new generation of architecture must arise with forms and spaces which seems to reject the precepts of ‘Modern’ yet in fact retains those precepts. We have chosen to by pass the decaying Bauhaus image which is an insult to functionalism.
You can roll out steel – any length. You can blow up a balloon – any size. So wrote David Greene in a poem published in the first issue of Archigram magazine or, as Greene’s co-editor, Peter Cook, called it “a message, or abstract communication?. It was a time of radical change. Prosperous and self-satisfied after a decade of post-war reconstruction, British architecture – the “staid Queen Mother of the arts? Yet Archigram’s influence has endured. FrontDesign (design by animals) Le collectif front design a été créé par 4 designer suédoises en 2003 : Anna Lindgren, Katja Sävström, Sofia Lagerkvist, et Charlotte von der Lancken.
Leur travail est amusant car il questionne sans cesse le rôle du concepteur, je m’explique… Pour leur premier projet présenté au salon du meuble de Milan en 2004, plutôt que de se poser en grandes designers, conceptrices hautement intellectuelles, elles laissent le soin à des serpents, rongeurs, insectes d’intervenir sur différents matériaux pour leur projet Design by animals… Le projet le plus marquant de cette série restera le Wallpaper by rats pour lequel elles laissent des rats grignoter un rouleau de papier qu’elles appliqueront ensuite par dessus un autre rouleau de papier peint et créer des motifs aléatoires. Un peu à la manière d’un Dali qui fit peindre un tableau par un âne un pinceau accroché au bout de la queue, ce projet questionne, minimise et ridiculise presque le travail du designer. Le résultat est vraiment bluffant : Neri oxman.