Group 9999
The Florentine group 9999 included Giorgio Birelli , Carlo Caldini , Fabrizio Fiumi and Paolo Galli . The association worked closely with Superstudio and is part of the radical design movement. Together they ran a school for conceptual architecture.
One of the few actually physically existing spaces that emerged from the work of the group is the Space Electronic discotheque in Florence. It was founded in 1969 in a former machine shop and equipped with old washing drums, refrigerators and then modern technology. The discotheque is still run by Carlo Caldini and Mario Bolgnesi today. The discotheque was presented at the 2014 Architecture Biennale under the title Space Electronic: Then and Now .
In 1972 they took part in the exhibition Italy: The New Domestic Landscape and won the Competition for Young Designers with their project Vegetable Garden House . From 1973 they were part of the Global Tools merger. In 2011, the works in the exhibition Italy: The New Domestic Landscape under the title Environments and Counter Environments were again curated and brought to the exhibition in a collaboration between Columbia University and the Museo del Disseny de Barcelona. In the announcement of the exhibition, the 9999 group is described as belonging to the "most vibrant Italian Architects". In 2013, the group's objects were shown in the joint exhibition Everything Loose Will Land at the MAK Art Center Los Angeles.
Today the group is considered to be one of the active forces in the so-called second wave of the radical Italian design movement, which has been underestimated for a long time and which ultimately had a decisive influence on Italian design history.
literature
- Bruno Casini: Ribelli nello spazio: culture underground anni settanta: lo Space Electronic a Firenze , Arezzo, Zona, 2013.
- Alex Coles and Catharine Rossi (eds.): The Italian Avant-Garde: 1968 - 1976 , Berlin, Sternberg, 2013.
- Sylvia Lavin: Andy Architect: Or, a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Disco Log no.15, Winter, 2009.
- Bürdeck, Bernhard E .: Design. History, theory and practice of product design , Basel, Birkhäuser, 2005, pp. 133–135.
- 9999 Group: Ricordi di Architettura , Capponi, Firenze, 1972.
- Jim Burns: Arthopods , New York, 1971.
- Mel Byars: Design Encyclopedia. 1880 to the present , Munich, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1994, p. 232.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Catharine Rossi: Architecture at the Disco: Radicals, Rhythms and the 1970s Avant-Garde. Wordpress, accessed August 9, 2014 .
- ^ Architecture. (No longer available online.) LaBiennale, archived from the original on August 10, 2014 ; Retrieved August 9, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 9999: History and Philosophy Carlo Caldini. Graham Foundation, accessed August 8, 2014 .
- ^ Environments and Counter Environments. “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape”, MoMA 1972. (No longer available online.) Museo del Disseny de Barcelona, archived from the original on August 10, 2014 ; accessed on August 8, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Everything Loose Will Land. MAK Center, accessed August 8, 2014 .
- ^ Grace Lees-Maffei, Kjetil Fallan: Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design . A&C Black, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4725-5842-8 , pp. 147 .
