Archigram architecture

Archigram’s “Walking city” Concept The Walking City was an idea proposed by British architect Ron Herron in 1964. In an article in avant-garde architecture journal Archigram, Ron Herron proposed building massive mobile robotic structures, with their own intelligence, that could freely roam the world, moving to wherever their resources or manufacturing abilities were needed. Various walking cities could interconnect with each other to form larger 'walking metropolises' when needed, and then…

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Architects Peter Cook and Dennis Crompton discuss Archigram's Plug-In City concept for an elevated city of capsule homes in this exclusive VDF video.

M+ museum in Hong Kong has bought the entire archive of influential British architecture collective Archigram, despite attempts to block the overseas sale.

M+ announced ‘Archigram Cities’, a series of online and offline events in November 2020 organised in collaboration with the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong and Power Station of Art in Shanghai. In 2019, the Archigram archive entered the collections of M+. Through its dense layering of infrastructure, media, and commerce, Hong Kong can be read as an ‘Archigram city’, and the archive’s presence there offers the potential to trace new, situated lines of inquiry in…

World Architecture Community News - Herzog & de Meuron-designed M+ museum purchases Archigram archive for £1.8 million

RNDRD is a partial index of architectural drawings and models scanned from design publications throughout the 20th century.

RNDRD is a partial index of architectural drawings and models scanned from design publications throughout the 20th century.

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Nel mondo di rovine del Moderno Max Ernst storceva e riaggiustava per far apparire tra le macerie i fantasmi del nuovo, c ’ er...

this urban agricultural community proposal for london uses energy generated from public toilets and human waste to power day to day functions.

Archigram imagery taken out of context Ben Terrett asked me to jot down some thoughts on the way Archigram worked, as part of a piece he’s pulled together on them, Pentagram and Magnum (the other p…

Archigram [Peter Cook, Taylor Woodrow] | Torre Pabellón para la Expo Montreal’67 | Montreal; Canadá | 1963

Image 1 of 9 from gallery of London's Architectural Association Exhibits Futuristic Work of Jan Kaplický. Photograph by Jan Kaplický

Peter Cook, Dennis Compton, Colin Fournier, David Greene with Ken Allison. Engineered by Frank Whitby. It seems that Ron Herron worked on the competition albeit whilst he was in America and consequently on the unbuilt scheme. This was a limited competition for an entertainment building on the reclaimed foreshore of Monte Carlo. Archigram reached the final stage and came very close to building in the sun. The Brief required a multi-purpose space to cater for a large banquet, variety shows, a…