During 1965, a group of architecture students began to think about wanting to become architects when they grew up. However, after learning about the adult world (architectural and otherwise), they decided that, while they wanted to become architects, they didn’t want to become adults. So, to realize their dream and following the example of Peter Pan, they built their little happy island and called it Studio65.
These young students of architecture were also painters, who painted in strong colors. Like all young people, they loved life to the point of being ready to fight to build a more just world, where imagination and its form of expression could find space and be appreciated. They loved American Pop Art and New America Cinema films, the Nouvelle Vague and the Italian avant-garde; Carmelo Bene, Lonesco, Beckett and the Living Theatre. They listened to rock and jazz music, read Mayakovsky, Marcuse, Montale, Asor Rosa, Tafuri and Simone de Beauvoir.
