Urban park competition, Modena, Italy (1970)

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People:

Alessandro Poli (archive creator)
Alessandro Poli (architect)
Roberto Gherardi (designer)
Superstudio (architectural firm)

Title:

Urban park competition, Modena, Italy (1970)

Date:

1969-1970

Level of archival description:
Project

Extent and medium:

34 drawings
0.1 l.m. textual material
6 photographs
1 poster

Scope and content:
The project series documents Poli and Roberto Gherardi's work for their thesis project submitted to Professor Savioli at the University of Florence School of Architecture in 1970. Poli notes that he became an official member of Superstudio after he wrote the thesis. Some works are signed Alessandro Poli-Superstudio. The project features a competition design and proposal for an urban park in Modena, Italy. The project has been published as "Park Dedicated to the Restistance" (Lang and Menking, 2003, 170-171). This title also appears on materials in this series. Reference is made to Poli's earlier project, Piper, in some of the documentation. The project was published in the magazine AD (n.6) in June, 1971.
Project contains drawings, sketches, photomontages, project documentation and the thesis text itself.
Source cited: Peter Lang and William Menking, Superstudio: Life Without Objects, Milan: Skira Editore, 2003.

Reference number:

AP148.S1.1970.PR01

Location:

Modena Italy

Related units of description:

Poli's Piper project (AP148.S1.1966.PR01) is mentioned in some of the work.

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