Originally published in Domus 517/December 1972
Superstudio: histograms from the catalog from the Misura series
...During those years, it became clear to us that to continue drawing furniture,
objects and other similar
household decorations was not the
solution to the problems of living in
houses. Neither was it the solution
to the problems of life itself,
and even less did it serve to save
one's soul...
Superstudio: Misura series
In the early 1970s, the avant-garde architectural group designed a series of conceptual furniture based on gridded histograms.
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- 21 July 2011
The problem was thus one of becoming ever more detached from these design activities, perhaps adopting the theory of minimum effort in a generai reductive process. We prepared a catalogue of three-dimensional, non-continuous diagrams, a catalogue of architectural histograms with reference to a grid transposable into different areas or scales for the construction of a serene and immobile Nature in which finally to recognize ourselves.