[Gruppo 9999]
Gruppo 9999 were pioneers of radical architecture, part of a larger Italian design movement that departed from the self-serious universality of modernism, embracing technology, artifice, and kitsch. They constructed no buildings, by design. They were interested in something more experiential. “The architecture of Space Electronic is inexistent,” the collective wrote in one particularly gnomic passage of their 1972 book, Architectural Memoirs.
Opened in 1969, the discotheque, two stories high, housed in a former engine repair shop, and which, in its first six years, would host everything from a vegetable garden to a conceptual toga party.
