Starting this fall, the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) will be hosting Scripts for a new world: Film storyboards by Alessandro Poli. Opening on September 21 and running until January 20, the exhibit will explore the interdisciplinary career of the 20th century Italian artist, architect, and designer.
Alessandro Poli. Third of a series of seven photographic collage showing foam monument emerging from a void in the Italian countryside, from the project Breve racconto di Architettura [Brief Tale of Architecture], 1969-1970.Alessandro Poli. Third of a series of seven photographic collage showing foam monument emerging from a void in the Italian countryside, from the project Breve racconto di Architettura [Brief Tale of Architecture], 1969-1970. Alessandro Poli fonds, CCA. ARCH400052 Alessandro Poli fonds, CCA. ARCH400052The CCA website offers a brief overview of the upcoming exhibit: Alongside a growth in decentralized, experimental, and underground cinema at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, many groups operating from inside the field of architecture such as Superstudio, Studio 9999, and Ant Farm explored the short film as a medium to expand architectural discourse, embed their projects with bold reflections and projections of society, and communicate with a broader audience through references to popular culture. The moving image was used to visualize radical interpretations of everyday life and future trajectories of architecture taken to their extremes?vis...