About None-conscious Architecture (1972-1973)

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People:

Gianni Pettena (archive creator)
Gianni Pettena (artist)

Title:

About None-conscious Architecture (1972-1973)

Date:

circa 1972-2015

Level of archival description:
Project

Extent and medium:

114 photographic materials
67 digital files (448 MB)

Scope and content:
The project series documents "About Non-conscious Architecture", a series of photographs thought as a catalogue of natural geographical features, seen by Pettena as "architecture not made by architects" [1]. The catalogue was built during Pettena's travels in the United States, between 1972 and 1973, and includes landscapes of Utah and the Great Salt Lake area and Monument Valley in Arizona. The project was also presented in the form of a film at the 1973 Milan Triennale.

The project series contains the photographs taken during research travels for the project selection, including behind the scene photographs, and final photographs series of "non-conscious" architecture.

Source:
[1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-non-conscious-1972-73-1/ (last accessed 12 November 2019).

Reference number:

AP207.S1.1972.PR05

Arrangement:
Material in this project series was kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.

Location:

United States

Language of material:

English
Italian

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