Savage Architecture

«Savage Architecture presents a journey to the root of the relationship between architecture and man in four episodes. This fifty years-long journey among different experiments unveils the foundations of a project alternative to the current blind faith in the economic and technological reason. The anthropological gaze gives form to an architecture that is savage because it refuses to impose the power of reason over the symbolic, animal, vital and therefore political dimension of man.» Davide Sacconi

SAVAGE ARCHITECTURE
Book

Publisher: Black Square Press
Text: Davide Sacconi, Gian Piero Frassinelli, 2A+P/A
Place: Milan
Year: 2016

TRAVELING EXHIBITION, 2016-2017
Architectural Association, London
CIVA, Brussels
Studiolo, Berlin
Politecnico Milan
Kent State University, Florence
Temple University, Rome

DESIGN TEAM:
2A+P/A (Gianfranco Bombaci, Matteo Costanzo) with Gian Piero Frassinelli (Superstudio)
CURATOR:
Davide Sacconi
IMAGES:
Gaia Ascone, Silvia Sanchietti
MODELS:
Marco Galofaro

The collaboration between Gian Piero Frassinelli and 2A+P/A  relaunched the debate on the relationship between architecture and anthropology. The traveling exhibition was curated by Davide Sacconi and exhibited first at Architectural Association in London from in February 2016, and then reaches Kent State University in Florence, Polytechnic of Milan, Foundation Civa in Bruxelles, Temple University in Rome, StudioLo in Berlin. The exhibition is accompanied by a book published by Black Square. Savage Architecture was presented and debated also at the Italian Cultural Institute in London and Berlin.