He believed that the consumer society had made us passive. We don't know how a table is put together, so we pay a fortune for someone else to tell us it is "exclusive."
However, Mari was a communist. He was an activist. He explicitly stated that the moral value of Autoprogettazione was in the act of building , not in the ownership of the book.
Many websites host scanned copies of the original 1974 manual. Searching for “Enzo Mari Autoprogettazione Pdf 15” will likely lead you to a grainy scan where the hand-drawn arrows are a bit blurred, but the dimensions (usually in centimeters) are still legible.
Disclaimer: This blog post is for educational and historical discussion. The author encourages supporting the estate of Enzo Mari by purchasing the official Autoprogettazione? facsimile from Corraini Edizioni.
He believed that the consumer society had made us passive. We don't know how a table is put together, so we pay a fortune for someone else to tell us it is "exclusive."
However, Mari was a communist. He was an activist. He explicitly stated that the moral value of Autoprogettazione was in the act of building , not in the ownership of the book.
Many websites host scanned copies of the original 1974 manual. Searching for “Enzo Mari Autoprogettazione Pdf 15” will likely lead you to a grainy scan where the hand-drawn arrows are a bit blurred, but the dimensions (usually in centimeters) are still legible.
Disclaimer: This blog post is for educational and historical discussion. The author encourages supporting the estate of Enzo Mari by purchasing the official Autoprogettazione? facsimile from Corraini Edizioni.