Cristiano Toraldo di Francia / Superstudio: A Selective Bibliography Compiled by Aileen Smith, November 2006 This bibliography consists of a selective list of books and articles relating to Cristiano Toraldo di Francia / Superstudio. Those books held within the AA Library are indicated with a shelfmark. Books (Alphabetically by title) Architectures experimentales 1950-2000: collection au FRAC Centre / Marie-Ange Brayer Orleans: HYX, 2003 ISBN 2910385302 (includes work by Superstudio) AA SHELFMARK: 72.036 BRA (REF-MLC) Changing of the avant-garde: visionary architectural drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection / Terence Riley New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2002 ISBN 0870700049 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036:742 CHA Cristiano Toraldo di Francia: progetti e architetture 1980-1988 / Gianni Pettena Milano: Edizioni Electa, 1988 ISBN 8843525336 S-Space presents: vita, morte e miracoli dell architettura = life, death and miracles of architecture: catalog festival n.1 November 9-11/1971 Firenze: Superstudio, 1971 AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 SUP (REF-GALL) Superstudio, 1966-1982: storie, figure, architettura / Gianni Pettena Milano: Electa Firenze, 1982 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(45):92SUP SUP Supertudio: life without objects / Peter Lang, William Menking Milan: Skira, 2003 ISBN 8884915694 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(45):92SUP LAN Supertudio: the Middleburg lectures / edited by Valentijn Byvanck Amsterdam: De Vleeshal & Zeeuws Museum, 2005 ISBN 9074038042 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(45):92SUP BYV
Journal Articles (Chronologically by year and month) 2004 Superstudio: life without objects / article by Anna Holtzman (review of exhibition on the 1960s group of radical architects base in Florence held at the Pratt Institute and the Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York) in Architecture (New York) vol.93 no.1 January 2004 / p.77 2003 Radicals revisited / article by Kenneth Powell (review of the Superstudio exhibition at the Design Museum, London) in Architects Journal vol.217 no.14 April 10, 2003 / p.42 Flooded with ideas / article by Pamela Buxton at the Design Museum, London) in Blueprint no.206 April 2003 / p.99 (on the Superstudio exhibition 2002 Utopian reflections, reflected utopias: urban designs by Archizoom and Superstudio / article by Marie Theres Stauffer in AA Files no.47 Summer 2002 / p.23-36 2001 Superstudio: Monument continu, 1969 / article by Dominique Rouillard (the projects Monument continu (Superstudio) and No Stop City (Archizoom, 1970-1971) represented a major turning point for the young architects of the London Architectural Association School) in Moniteur Architecture AMC no.115 April 2001 / p.80-87 (text in French)
1995 Campo de Sole : un intervento in pietra serena / article by Giorgio Blanco (Sculpture park in Tuoro on the shore of Lake Trasimeno, with contemporary column-like works / Planned by Cristiano Toraldo di Francia. Sculpture by Pietro Cascella and others) in L Industria delle Costruzioni, 29 (284) June 1995 / p.61 (text in Italian) 1989 International competition of invitation for new architectural solution of urbanization at the Piazza Matteotti-La Lizza area of Siena: Un progetto per Siena / article by Hiromichi Matsui (includes design by Adolfo Natalini & Cristiano Toraldo di Francia) in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (225) June 1989 / p.3-14 (text in Japanese) Ontologia dello spazio urbano? Tre progetti per Siena = Ontology of urban space? Three projects for Siena / article by Mirko Zardini (urban renewal competition projects for Piazza Matteotti & La Lizza area includes project by Cristiano Toraldo di Francia) in Lotus international no.61 1989 / p.42-61 (text in 1988 What a job it is to get into Siena! / article by Klaus Giovanni Koenig (competition entrants include Cristiano Toraldo di Francia) in Ottagono (91) December 1988 / p.42-51 (text in Il concorso per l area di piazza Matteotti-la Lizza a Siena (includes competition entry by Cristiano Toraldo di Francia) in Casabella, 52 (552) December 1988 / p.4-21 (text in
1986 Negozio a Firenze / article by Gianni Pettana (store interior design by Cristiano Toraldo di Francia) in Domus no.673 June 1986 / p.[54-61] (text in 1983 Old-new: ancient-modern. The problem of the relation of the new to the old in established environments (includes work by Superstudio) in Parametro vol.14 no.121 November 1983 / p.26-64 (text in 1982 A bank for Prato; Architects: Cristiano Toraldo di Francia / article by Giovanni Klaus Koenig in Domus no.634 December 1982 / p.60-65 (text in 1973 Life, education, ceremony, love, death: five tales / article by Superstudio in Casabella vol.37 no.374 (2) February 1973 / p.34041 (text in Sottsass, Superstudio: mindscapes / article by Mildred S Friedman and others (records an exhibition organized by the Walker Arts Center) in Design Quarterly no.89 1973 / p.1-33 1972 Salvaging the historical centres of Italy / article by Superstudio in Argomenti e Immagini di Design no.5 May/June 1972 / p.4-13 (text in Italian) Three warnings for a mystical rebirth of urbanism / article by Superstudio in Archithese no.1 1972 / p.3-6 (text in German)
1971 Superstudio in Perspecta no.13/14 1971 / p.303-315 1970 Conceptual architecture: towards a definition / article by Peter Eisenman and others (includes work by Superstudio) in Design Quarterly no.78/79 1979 / p.1-66 1969 Projects and ideas of the group Superstudio of Florence in Domus October 1969 / p.38-42 (text in Italian) Websites http://architettura.supereva.com/architetture/20030126 www.designmuseum.org/design/superstudio Compiled by Aileen Smith, Deputy Librarian November 2006