„You can roll out steel – any length. You can blow up a balloon – any size. You can mould plastic – any shape. Blokes that built the Forth Bridge – they didn’t worry.” (David Greene)
What may have seemed like an inaccessible future for people in the 60s, has become reality- at least theoretically. The Archigram was an architectural movement initiated by a group of british Architecture students in the years 60-74 of the last century, and shows incredible futuristic work. They were frustrated about architecture at that time, so they created something totally new. Key characteristics are modularity, living space, community, futurism.
The movement started with an exhibition and a magazine they printed on the cheapest paper available and sold it for 9 pence each. There were 6 architects (Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron, Michael Webb), and their creations must have been mindblowing at that time, but it was a time of radical changes in general: soviets had sent the first man to space, the Beatles released their first single "Love me do", Bob Dylan became popular, and there were radical technological novelties.
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| Walking City (via tangentialvignettes.blogspot.com) |
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| Plug-In-City (via essential-architecture.com) |
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| Instant city (via popemup.de) |
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