Episodes toward a Fluxarchitecture. The work of George Maciunas, Shadrach Woods and Joachim Pfeufer

Authors

  • Federica Doglio , Politecnico di Torino (Italia)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.201792278

Keywords:

Fluxus, Architecture, Urbanism, Woods, Pfeufer, Maciunas

Abstract

Fluxus, an artistic movement that emerged in 1960, crossed borders within the arts. Soon it expanded to include sculpture, poetry, performance, photography, and cinema, taking on a multi-disciplinary character that regularly crossed or erased borders within the arts. Its relationship to architecture, however, is more complex. In the 1960s, a few architects sought to resolve contradictions between the principles of Fluxus and the presumptions of their own field, and explored the possibilities of change —flux— in architectural practice. This article will investigate possible connections between Fluxus and the architectural practices. It considers three figures who were both theorists and architects: Georges Maciunas, Shadrach Woods and Joachim Pfeufer. Their practices, considered together, form what in this article I coin “fluxarchitecture”.

 

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Author Biography

  • Federica Doglio, , Politecnico di Torino (Italia)

    Federica Doglio is an architect and a scholar. She is an Adjunct Professor in Urbanism at the School of Architecture of the Politecnico di Torino and she teaches Design studios at the New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan (NABA). She holds a PhD in Cultural Heritage from the School of Architecture of the Politecnico di Torino. In 2011-2012, conducting a research on Shadrach Woods (“A Team X Heritage. Shadrach Woods and the Architecture of Education between Europe and the US, 1962-1973) at Avery Drawings and Archives, she was a PhD scholar at the Columbia University in New York City. Her interests focus on the theory and criticism of contemporary architecture and urbanism over the past fifty years in Europe and the US. In 2013-14 she was awarded a research fellowship in the context of the Visiting Scholars Program at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. She has published essays and articles in, among the others, “Le Carré Bleu” and two monographs (Paolo Soleri. Arcologie in terre marginali, LetteraVentidue, 2013 and Shadrach Woods. Per una Teoria Urbana, LetteraVentidue, 2015).

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Published

2017-12-04

Issue

No. 9 (2017): Architecture, the Art of Looking and Visual Culture

Section

Miscellany

How to Cite

Doglio, F. (2017). Episodes toward a Fluxarchitecture. The work of George Maciunas, Shadrach Woods and Joachim Pfeufer. ZARCH. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, 9, 208-217. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.201792278