Andreotti, Libero

Bio Sketch

Libero Andreotti is an architectural historian and professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has written extensively on the Situationist International and twentieth-century avant-garde architecture, co-editing (with Xavier Costa) the key situationist source collections and catalogues, and advocated a reading of the SI's urbanism through the play-theory of Johan Huizinga.

Key Works

• "Unitary Urbanism: Play-Tactics of the Internationale Situationniste (1957–1972)" (1999) — the play-based reading of the SI's dérive, Gallizio, and New Babylon.
• Theory of the Dérive and Other Situationist Writings on the City (ed. with Xavier Costa, 1997) — a key English source collection.

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• Unitary Urbanism
• Dérive
• New Babylon
• Play

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Andreotti's play-tactics reading is a central secondary source for Geoffrey's Situationist urbanism area: it frames the dérive and New Babylon in terms of Huizinga's ludic ethics, and grounds the material/formal utopianism split that organizes Geoffrey's reading of the SI.

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• Unitary Urbanism: Play-Tactics of the SI