The 1960s and 1970s avant-garde has been likened to an
'architectural Big Bang', such was the intensity of energy and
ambition in which it exploded into the postwar world. Marked out by
architectural projects that redefined the discipline, it remains
just as influential today. References to the likes of Archizoom,
Peter Eisenman, John Hejduk and Superstudio abound. Highly diverse,
the avant-garde cannot be defined as a single strand or tendency.
It was divergent geographically - reaching from Europe to North
America and Japan - and in its political, formal and cultural
preoccupations. It was unified, though, as a critical and
experimental force, critiquing contemporary society against the
backdrop of extreme social and political upheaval: the Paris riots
of May 1968, the anti-Vietnam war movement in America and the
looming ecological crisis. Re-imagining the Avant-garde outlines
how in contemporary architectural practice, avant-garde projects
retain their power as historical precedents, as barometers of a
particular design ethos, as critiques of society and instigators of
new formal techniques. Given the far-reaching impact of the
subsequent digital revolution, which has since reshaped every
aspect of practice, the issue asks why this historical period
continues to retain its undeniable grip on current architecture.
Contributors: Pablo Bronstein and Sam Jacob, Sarah Deyong,
Stylianos Giamarelos, Damjan Jovanovic, Andrew Kovacs, Perry
Kulper, Igor Marjanovic, William Menking, Michael Sorkin, Neil
Spiller and Mimi Zeiger. Featured architects: Archizoom, Andrea
Branzi, Jimenez Lai, Luis Miguel (Koldo) Lus Arana (Klaus),
NEMESTUDIO, Superstudio and UrbanLab.
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