Superstudio's Continuous Monument

Around 1969-70 architecture firm Superstudio started to push the bounds of architecture as a means of critique with their models of total urbanization called The Continuous Monument. This project, through the images of a negative utopia, pushed to extremes the classical conception of the relationship between nature and architecture, city and country.

These theoretical drawings illustrate a conviction that by extending a single piece of architecture over the entire world they could "put cosmic order on earth." The white, gridded, monolithic structures span the natural landscape and assert rational order upon it. Superstudio saw this singular unifying act, unlike many modern utopian schemes, as nurturing rather than obliterating the natural world.