Smiljan Radić’s Collection of Radical Architecture
We are pleased to announce the release of the new publication Cloud ’68 – Paper Voice. Smiljan Radić’s Collection of Radical Architecture at gta Verlag
The book pays homage to the radical architecture movement in Europe from the 1950s to the 1970s, which initiated numerous new forms of experimental expression. A selection of 177 graphic pieces—lithographs, drawings, original etchings, and ephemera from the personal collection of the Chilean architect Smiljan Radić—reveal the scope of the diverse architectural approaches from those years. Works by Constant, Utopie, Guy Debord, Asger Jorn, Haus-Rucker-Co, Archigram, and Superstudio, among others, are displayed in 33 panels that recall the precedent show at gta exhibitions. The publication is complemented by interview fragments by the critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, who interviewed the protagonists of this architectural movement, plus three essays by Tom McDonough, Moisés Puente, and by Lara Schrijver.
Selected works from Smiljan Radić’s collection:
Aerolande, Ant Farm, Archigram, Noël Arnaud, Kiyoshi Awazu, André Bertrand, Andrea Branzi, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Constant, Guy Debord, David Georges Emmerich, Richard Buckminster Fuller, Haus-Rucker-Co, Dick Higgins, Hans Hollein, Gérard Joannès, Asger Jorn, Nico Koster, Kishō Kurokawa, Ugo La Pietra, David Lewis, Enzo Mari, Roberto Matta, Alessandro Mendini, Jørgen Nash, Paul Nelson, Erik Nørgaard, Auguste Pace, Biagio Pancino, Claude Parent, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Heimrad Prem, Cedric Price, Situationist International, Paolo Soleri, Hardy Strid, Superstudio, Jens Jørgen Thorsen, Utopie, Raoul Vaneigem, Simon Vinkenoog, Paul Virilio, Christoffer Von Kraemer, Wolf Vostell, and more
Interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist with:
Cini Boeri, Andrea Branzi, Constant, Peter Cook, Hans Hollein, Rem Koolhaas, Kishō Kurokawa, Ugo La Pietra, Enzo Mari, Roberto Matta, Alessandro Mendini, Claude Parent, Cedric Price, Paolo Soleri, Superstudio, and Nanda Vigo
Cloud ’68 – Paper Voice. Smiljan Radić’s Collection of Radical Architecture
Edited by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen with Valentina Ehnimb and Patricio Mardones
Introduction by Valentina Ehnimb, Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen
Essays by Tom McDonough, Moisés Puente, Lara Schrijver
Interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Graphic design by Teo Schifferli
2020. 21 x 16 cm, softcover with dust jacket, Japanese binding
120 pages, 177 illustrations
ISBN 978-3-85676-391-6
English
