What We're Seeing: Radical Disco

December 7th, 2015

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Opening tomorrow, this new exhibition at the ICA explores the relationship between architecture and night-life in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s.

This period saw a number of discotheques open across Italy, including several designed by architects of Radical Design: a movement dissatisfied by the limitations and ineffectiveness of post-war modern design.

The architects involved sought to use their profession as a tool for societal change and to challenge the idea of architects’ role in society.