Archigram Ten resurrects the legendary architectural magazine after a fifty-year hiatus, gathering original Archigram members alongside contemporary designers, technologists and critics to interrogate where architecture is heading — and why.
About This Book
From its 1961 launch through nine and a half issues, Archigram magazine was the radical paper infrastructure of a movement that reimagined architecture through movable structures, modular systems, and speculations that outpaced the technologies of the day. When the group disbanded in 1974, that conversation went unfinished. Archigram Ten picks it back up. Edited by Peter Cook and featuring contributions from founding members Dennis Crompton, David Greene, and Michael Webb, this issue casts a wry glance backward while pressing forward — measuring the distance between Archigram's utopian provocations and the architectural culture that has since absorbed, diluted, or ignored them. Essential reading for anyone invested in the history and future of experimental architecture.
Key Features
- 96 pages of editorial, critical, and speculative content from original Archigram members and contemporary contributors
- Edited by Peter Cook; contributions from Dennis Crompton, David Greene, and Michael Webb
- Published by Circa Press, 2007
What You'll Discover
- How Archigram's explorations of movable structures and modular systems were shaped by — and exceeded — the technological realities of the space race era
- The role of self-published magazines as platforms for architectural speculation outside institutional constraints
- A collective critical assessment of where architecture currently stands, filtered through the lens of one of the discipline's most disruptive groups
- The tension between Archigram's forward-looking radicalism and the retrospective act of reviving a movement after half a century
About the Author
Peter Cook (b. 1936) is a founding member of Archigram and served as Chair of Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture from 1990 to 2006, where he transformed the institution into one of the world's leading centres of creative design. In 2002, Archigram received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, and in 2007 Cook was awarded a knighthood for his services to architecture and education.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 96
- Dimensions: 26 x 26 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781911422464
- Publisher: Circa Press
- Publication Date: 2007
Perfect For: Architects and students interested in experimental and speculative architecture, historians of the twentieth-century avant-garde, and anyone tracing the lineage from Archigram's radical proposals to contemporary architectural discourse.