An interview that would be as relevant now as ever, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia founder of Superstudio, interviewed by Collectible DRY: "Together with another friend of mine who joined the group, Alessandro Poli, along with Frassinelli and Natalini, we spent a few years studying a Tuscan farmer from the Maremma, Zeno Fiaschi. I brought this effort to the 1978 Venice Biennale, in which we saw the coexistence of memory, invention, transformation, use and restoration of all that had become organized into temporal rather than physical divisions in our urban life. The architect designed, the factory produced, one person distributed, another person purchased... but nobody knew anyone else. It was interesting to document this coexistence of memory’s creative capacities, of transformation and something that would later become fundamental: recycling. The farmer recycled naturally. He even recycled the residue of war, the famous corrugated iron left by Allied troops, which he turned into a henhouse... The pieces of any material were recycled. I brought some things that Zeno Fiaschi gave me to the Biennale. One of these was a small, very low chair, probably intended to bet set beside the fireplace. This chair continues to travel with Superstudio exhibitions today. Originally it was a dining chair, with a trunk divided into four pieces as the four legs: then these pieces were gradually replaced, cut and adapted until there were only two pieces left of the original chair. The rest was all transformation, recycling, reuse. Today people would love all that! Your greatest intuitions emerge clearly from this route. Some of them have remained hidden for several years, but as we’ve seen they’re flourishing today... Today there’s a need to return to the idea of community, to rediscovering architecture. I fully agree with what Mario Cucinella said in your interview for Lifegate: “I want young architects understand that they don’t have to make a building in Hong Kong to be a great architect. An architect is a person who participates in social and civic life also through considered and fair operations, small buildings, things that are useful and that serve the community.”