Superstudio: Life Without Objects March 13 - May 30, 2004 Opening reception, Saturday, March 12, 6 to 10pm (ArtNight) Some 30 years ago, Superstudio, a group of radical Florentine architects, proposed a gridded superstructure that would wrap around the world. Eventually, this structure, Il Monumento Continuo, would cover the entire surface of the planet, leaving the Earth as featureless as the smoothest desert, or, more to the point, as a willfully low-brow, suburban-style western city. Superstudio was formed by Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Torelado di Francia in Florence in 1966. Over the next dozen years, these thoughtful, good-time young radicals set out to undermine the certainties of modern movement in architecture and design. They did not build — although they did design furniture — but made their case through provocative and amusing photo-collages, films, furniture and exhibitions. Superstudio: Life Without Objects was curated by Peter Lang of Texas A&M University and William Menking of Pratt Institute. The exhibition was first staged at the Design Museum in London, England and organized to travel internationally by James Peto, head of exhibitions at the Design Museum.