Just how did SUPERSTUDIO come to Architecture's rescue in 1966? The Superarchitecture movement was around in time to witness the infamous flood of Florence on 4 November, but its members were not there with the purpose of saving the historic city's artistic patrimony. Instead, SUPERSTUDIO was preparing to launch one of the most radical campaigns against the state of architecture, attacking the senseless waste of energy and resources disappearing under the demands of an overcharged consumer culture.
This book, by examining over a decade of SUPERSTUDIO history, seeks to recover the broad range of SUPERSTUDIO's actions, projects, and critical ideology, in an attempt to explain the sublime beauty of their visions. "The inclination to violate architecture, to reject architecture as a given condition, to lay waste to its very foundations, suggests not a new form of architecture but the reconceptualization of architecture as a fundamental condition of life.
SUPERSTUDIO's nihilistic operation, springing from a reconstructed post-war Florentine society, reflects the flip side of the Italian dolce vita. Florence's artistic patrimony remained only a veil over the grim business of unfettered growth and alienated lifestyles, achieved at the expense of social equality and the urban environment."

(Peter Lang, Suicidal Desires)