Cristiano Toraldo Di Francia tells the story of Superstudio, the avant garde architecture collective that he founded with Adolfo Natalini in Florence in 1966. Superstudio critiqued architecture's ongoing allegiance to modernist ideals and through a radically creative analysis of the hidden complicities that make architecture a contributor to social and environmental problems, they questioned the efficacy of architecture's utopian momentum. Toraldo Di Francia illustrates his talk with a wealth of Superstudio photo-montages, collages, sketches, drawings and storyboards that document the passage from the ideas that accumulated around the concept of Superarchitecture through the Continuous Monument project (and the emergence of a productive fascination with the grid) to a wider exploration of 'negative utopias' demonstrated in several short films from the early 1970s - including 'Supersurface: An Alternative Model for Life on the Earth', shown as part of this talk. Following the dissolution of Superstudio as a collective, Toraldo Di Francia set up his own office in 1978, focusing on various scales of design from the industrial to the architectural to the urban. His work has been widely exhibited, including shows at MOMA, Centre Pompidou, and at the Venice Biennale.