Utopie Radicali: Florence 1966?1976 exhibits at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal until October 7.

The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) welcomes visitors to its current exhibition, Utopie Radicali: Florence 1966-1976, with Remo Buti?s Piatti di Architettura (1962-1975), a long table set up with plates adorned with architects? drawings. This domestic setting hints at the Museum of Modern Art?s seminal 1972 exhibition Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, curated by Emilio Ambasz, which first introduced 1960s Italian design to a North American audience. The CCA exhibition focuses on the more radical representatives specifically from Florence, adding lesser-known protagonists to the more famous Superstudio, Archizoom, and 9999 that were part of the MoMA exhibition. But whereas the earlier exhibition presented these investigations through ?environments? that were directly criticizing the political and social contexts of their era, the CCA presents an archivist?s point of view that takes away some of the political power of the original projects. ?Nuova Università di Firenze,? 1971. San Casciano Val di Pesa. Archivio 9999 ABOVE ?La città come ambiente significante,? Alberto Breschi, Roberto Pecchioli
(Zziggurat) 1973.
Curated by Pino Brugellis, Alberto Salvadori and Gianni Pettena (who acts as an engaged historian of the era, since his work is also on show) the exhibition started life at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence in late 2017. The Montreal iteration add...