![]() ![]() The unique exhibit is a tribute to Archigram’s contributions to global architecture over the last 50+ years, and features over 10,000 images, technical drawings, collages and other works. The exhibit is presented in collaboration with the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong, Shanghai’s Power Station of Art, and the visual culture magazine M+. In 2020, a multifaceted exhibit called Archigram Cities opened in Hong Kong, China. In 2018 the Archigram Archive was purchased by the M+ Museum in Hong Kong. Michael continues to work daily on his never-ending projects and, like the others, conducts seminars and lectures at various universities around the world. David retired from teaching at the University of Westminster but still is a presence at the AA. Dennis Crompton maintains the Archigram archives and designed the Archigram book a compilation of everything the group has produced. Peter Cook now maintains his own firm, CRAB, and lectures world-wide. In 2000 the group won the Royal Institute of British Architects gold medal.Īll of the Archigrammers taught in American and English universities while working on their individual projects. Some of Michael’s projects featured in Archigram issues include the Furniture Building, Sin Palace or Center, Rent A Wall, Cushicle, Suitaloon, and Dreams Come True. Michael went on to teach at RISD, NJIT, Barnard and the Cooper Union David to teach at the University of Westminster and later the AA. Due to a variety of reasons the design was never made flesh and by this time Michael was teaching at Virginia Tech in the USA. Ron, Peter, and Dennis started an office called Archigram Architects based on the group’s winning of a competition in 1969 to design an Entertainment Center in Monte Carlo. There were 9 issues of Archigram published from 1961 to 1970. All these were dutifully recorded in the pages of Archigram magazine. Michael remembers being invited for a Sunday evening party at Peter’s flat in Aberdare Gardens NW6 Peter had seen published a student project of Michael’s: the headquarters of an association of furniture manufacturers and wanted to meet the person behind the work.Īt this time the Archigrammers were working separately in various offices corralled into producing the previously mentioned boring buildings however, they all came together when the well-known architect Theo Crosby was asked to form a design team to plan the new London terminal to replace Euston Station. The arrangement did not have a happy outcome and the boys consoled themselves meeting in a greasy spoon and dreaming of plug- in cities, floating cities, living cities and walking cities (culminating in an exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary Arts). Among them were five architectural misfits who would later form the Archigram group: Warren Chalk, Dennis Crompton, David Green, Ron Herron and Michael Webb. Peter Cook gathered together the work of those young architects he found interesting. ![]() Additionally, it marked the beginning of Archigram’s (especially Peter Cook’s) romance with the mechanics of sequential imaging, which would be used to present subsequent projects. With its bold use of comic book and general science fiction imagery, it also became an inevitable presence in any recount of the occasionally close encounters of architecture and the graphic narrative, as well as a stimulus for the use of the latter in the 1960s and 70s visionary architectural scene. Thanks to the intervention of both Peters (Banham and Blake), the “Zoom” issue propped Archigram into an international context, helping create the public perception of Archigram not only as a magazine, but also as an architectural team with a certain conceptual and aesthetic agenda. When, in May 1964, the fourth issue of Archigram, (also known as “Amazing Archigram / Zoom”) came out, it signaled the final boost of Archigram magazine. Peter Cook described Archigram as “a reaction to the boringness of postwar British architecture.” They were dubbed the Beatles of Architecture. Formed during the turbulent and rebellious 1960s the members of the Archigram group proposed, through the medium of drawings, animations and models buildings that attempted to reflect the radical changes British society was undergoing. ![]()
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