Fundamental Acts. Life, Education, Ceremony, Love, Death

Fundamental Acts was originally commissioned for the exhibition Archivo/Italia, curated byMario Ballesteros at Archivo Dieseno y Arqitectura in Mexico City, from October 2015 to January 2016. The Fundamental Acts propose a collective reformulation of five great themes of human existence - Life, Education,Ceremony, Love, Death - based on a palimpsest provided by Superstudio in 1972 The Fundamental Acts propose a collective reformulation of five great themes of the human existence Life, Education, Ceremony, Love and Death. They were conceived by Superstudio as a series of films centered on the relationship between architecture and the acts of human life. The films were sketched in storyboard format and later published as a series of documents on the pages of Casabella magazine. The Fundamental Acts contain the possibility of reintroducing a discourse on the relationship between architecture and ritual. They have been (re)produced by a group of international contributors and the documents submitted have been collected in this book.