Savage Architecture Book

EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
MILAN 2016

Curated by Davide Sacconi
Published by Black Square, Milan, 2016
15x21cm, 86pp. illustrated, Paperback.

The project Savage Architecture — an exhibition at Architectural Association of London and a book published by Black Square both curated by Davide Sacconi — have been presented in a symposium at the Italian Cultural Institute of London. The exhibition “Savage Architecture” presents a journey to the root of the relationship between architecture and man in four episodes.

Departing from Frassinelli’s unpublished proposal for an Anthropology Research Center (1968), lingering on the dystopian and revealing scenarios of The Twelve Ideal Cities (1972), the trajectory culminates in the recent collaborative projects of Frassinelli and 2A+P/A for the Budapest Ethnographic Museum (2014) and the Central Archive of Human Cultures (2015).
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.