we can live without architecture

“Architecture never touches the great themes, the fundamental themes of our lives. It remains at the limit and intervenes only at a certain point in the process, usually when behavior has already been totally codified, furnishing answers to rigidly stated questions. Even if its answers are evasive, the topic of their production and consumption avoids any real upheaval. […] Architecture presents no real proposal since it uses instruments accurately predisposed to avoid any deviation…”

SUPERSTUDIO manifesto

“If design is merely an inducement to consume then we must reject design; if architecture is merely the codifying of the bourgeois models of ownership and society, then we must reject town planning and its cities[…] Until all design activities are aimed towards meeting primary needs, until then design must disappear. We can live without architecture… "

Adolfo Natalini (1971)

“The problem is not to furnish rooms and not even to produce objects both amusing and perishable… The problem is to furnish deserts, to awake consciousness from long dogmatic sleep and force backward the monster created by the sleep of reason…”

“House of Calm Serenity” SUPERSTUDIO