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	ARCHIGRAM
		After twelve years on the road, the ARCHIGRAM Exhibition has concluded its world tour with an extremely popular presentation at the Art Tower Mito in Japan last year.
		All those old favourites, the 300+ drawings, fifteen models, the Plug-in wall, the Opera, videos and the Archigram office as it was in the early seventies, and L.A.W.U.N. (including the stuffed dog) are all packed away in their crates.
		The ARCHIGRAM GROUP were awarded the 2002 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture and Archigramers Peter Cook and David Greene were the joint winners of the RIBA's Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Education.
	www.archigram.net /diary_dec.html (164 words)

	Archigram designs on the future
		Archigram was christened in 1961, when a group of dissident British neophyte architects - Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron, and Mike Webb - joined forces to produce an alternative architectural broadsheet as a venue for their drawings and collages.
		Archigram's most radical innovations, however, were inspired by their ambition to create an architecture that did not so much capture the look of consumer capitalism as obey its logic.
		Archigram's optimistic embrace of consumer capitalism and consumer choice was naive at best - seemingly unaffected by the ideological critiques launched by their contemporaries that outlined capitalism's amazing capacity to shape rather than merely respond to desire.
	www.postmedia.net /02/archigram.htm (1688 words)

	The Bartlett: Architecture
		Archigram is a British group who are known for their work together over twelve years from the early sixties, and for producing the broadsheet of the same name (though their output continued after that in various ways).
		Archigram, as noted before, was also the name of their famous broadsheet whose title sheet proclaimed that it 'was founded as an occasional journal/manifesto of dynamic ideas for new architecture.' The first issue in May 1961 was priced ninepence.
		Archigram is a marvellously fitting choice for a Royal Gold Medal for the beginning of the 21st century, with the message and mixture of enthusiasm, optimism, debunking, imagination, harnessing awareness of the boundary-breaking realities of the sciences and arts outside, or on the edge of, architecture.
	www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk /architecture/people/showcase/01-02/archigram.htm (992 words)

	Archigram / Architects (1961-1974) - Design/Designer Information
		ARCHIGRAM dominated the architectural avant garde in the 1960s and early 1970s with its playful, pop-inspired visions of a technocratic future after its formation in 1961 by a group of young London architects – Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb.
		The cultural climate, once so empathetic to Archigram’s technocractic optimism, was darkening as the brutality of the war in Vietnam and civil unrest in Northern Ireland, demonstrated the macabre side of technological advances.
		When the practise dissolved in 1974, Archigram had realised three projects, all completed in 1973 by Dennis Crompton and Ron Herron: a children’s playground in Milton Keynes, an exhibition at the Commonwealth Institute in London and a swimming pool for the singer Rod Stewart.
	www.designmuseum.org /design/archigram (1724 words)

	Metropolis What Goes Up: Amazing Archigram
		Archigram's projects were big-scale: vast "plug-in" cities (skeletal metal armatures ready to receive air-transported, crane-mounted living pods that could be relocated and reconfigured at the whim of their inhabitants) and "walking cities" (megastructures on mighty metal legs designed to prowl the Earth in search of congenial sites to pass the time).
		Archigram started not only from an embrace of the refinements of metal joinery, but from a love for the Britain of toby mugs and caged budgies, of flying aspidistras and Callard and Bowser toffees.
		For Archigram (both the magazine and the group), as for The Eagle, the technical (per Mike Webb's obsessive perspectives and fiendish compound curves, for example) was fused with the elasticity of the cartoon.
	www.metropolismag.com /html/content_0498/ap98what.htm (1885 words)

	Referat Engleza - The Archigram Movement (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In this study, I hope to speculate on the political stance of the Archigram movement as a whole, and to analyse the extent to which Archigram may be said to reflect the political and social climate of post-war consumer culture in the West.
		The Archigram architects may actually have been in a position to be able to build some of their designs, but no evidence exists to suggest that the physical means were at their disposal at the time to incorporate, for example, their ideas which utilised anti-gravity technology (Ron Herron, Anti-gravity Suit).
		When the Archigram group formed, architecture was still constrained by post-war administrative practices and dull functionalism, but the apprehensions of the immediate post-war period quickly gave way to a new era of hedonism with the end of rationing and the start of the economic boom.
	www.e-scoala.ro /referate/engleza_archigram.html (6875 words)

	The Archigram Movement
		In this study, I hope to speculate on the political stance of the Archigram movement as a whole, and to analyse the extent to which Archigram may be said to reflect the political and social climate of post-war consumer culture in the West.
		The Archigram architects may actually have been in a position to be able to build some of their designs, but no evidence exists to suggest that the physical means were at their disposal at the time to incorporate, for example, their ideas which utilised anti-gravity technology (Ron Herron, Anti-gravity Suit).
		When the Archigram group formed, architecture was still constrained by post-war administrative practices and dull functionalism, but the apprehensions of the immediate post-war period quickly gave way to a new era of hedonism with the end of rationing and the start of the economic boom.
	www.allfreeessays.com /student/The_Archigram_Movement.html (3387 words)

	Taipei Times - archives
		Archigram was founded as a magazine in 1961 by six London architects and then went on to spawn a movement.
		The term "archigram" was created by combining "architecture" with "telegram" and implied mobility, the lack of which they saw as an urban flaw to be rectified.
		Archigram member Michael Webb, also in Taipei for the opening, said that one of the things they realized was that "the labelling no longer applies," because in a dynamic environment, spaces can be used for anything.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/feat/archives/2003/03/16/198330 (792 words)

	From the Environmental Communications Archives The Archigram Vision :: arcspace.com
		Archigram started as an urgent message, a broadcast about a "new generation....(which) must arise", and continued with a rapid succession of publications and exhibitions, all of which were characterized by audacious criticism and provocative synthesis.
		Archigram explored the continuities of change and choice using the opportunities presented by new, spacey technologies.
		Archigram were originally communicated using all the media of our time, including throw aways and seed packets.
	www.arcspace.com /architects/archigram (260 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Archigram (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Formed in 1961 by Peter Cook, Archigram was an iconoclastic reaction to working life in the conservative British architectural firms of the day.
		Undaunted by the reality that none of their ideas could actually be built, the group’s designs continued to become more ethereal, gradually incorporating the communal notions espoused by the counter-culture and losing their emphasis on individuality.
		Sorkin's profile conveys the setting and mood from which both Archigram the magazine and Archigram the group were born.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=542 (636 words)

	ARCHIGRAM : Experimental Architecture 1961-1974
		Archigram was initially the title of a broadside published in 1961 by recent architecture graduates Peter Cook, David Greene, and Mike (Spider) Webb.
		The name Archigram is a combination of "architecture" and "telegram," and was intended to convey a sense of urgency upon receipt of the magazine, as if it were a telegram.
		Archigram's winning design emphasized the natural beauty of the coastline by burying the architecture - the other proposals ruptured the serenity of the horizon with their proposed structures.
	www.sac.or.kr /eng/lab2003/archigram (5445 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		Archigram's work remains contentious among architects, yet it nearly always goes down well with the public whenever Walking City, Instant City and the groovy Living Capsule (a proposal for a 1960s micro-flat cooler than a James Bond vodka martini) are taken on show to museums and galleries worldwide.
		Archigram comprised a group of like-minded graduates fresh from the Architectural Association school, London, (Cook, Greene, Webb) and three experienced young architects who had been working with the London county council architect's department on such projects as the South Bank Centre.
		"Archigram," said the architect David Rock, in his Royal Gold Medal citation, "was a necessary irritant." The rather prim and starchy sensitivities of the British architectural profession in the early 1960s were cratched and teased in Archigram's comic book-style magazine.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4355552,00.html (854 words)

	Vivid_Rotterdam
		Archigram, een samenvoeging van de woorden Architectural en Telegram, is de titel van het tijdschrift dat Peter Cook in 1961 publiceerde.
		Archigram’s ideas responded to space travel and moon landing, subculture and the Beatles, science fiction and the new technologies of the sixties and seventies.
		A second publication, CONCERNING ARCHIGRAM, with introduction by Michael Sorkin and essays by Barry Curtis and William Menking and contributions from the Archigram Group members, was published to coincide with the exhibition in Manchester and New York.
	www.designws.com /pagina/1archigram.htm (1488 words)

	YouWorkForThem \| Architecture: Archigram: Architecture without Architectur
		The Archigram style was assembled from the Apollo missions, constructivism, biology, manufacturing, electronics, and popular culture, inspiring an architectural movement -- High Tech -- and influencing the postmodern and deconstructivist trends of the late twentieth century.
		Although most Archigram projects were at the limits of possibility and remained unbuilt, the six architects at the center of the movement, Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron, and Michael Webb, became a focal point for the architectural avant-garde, because they redefined the purpose of architecture.
		Archigram: Architecture without Architecture -- the first full-length critical and historical account of the Archigram phenomenon -- traces Archigram from its rediscovery of early modernist verve through its courting of students, to its ascent to international notoriety for advocating the "disappearance of architecture." 1960s.
	youworkforthem.com /product.php?sku=P0525&PHPSESSID=5b4d4c807cfb1285eda737598c082f82 (402 words)

	Feature: Members of Archigram receive award \| Arts critics \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		Archigram's work remains contentious among architects, yet it nearly always goes down well with the public whenever Walking City, Instant City and the groovy Living Capsule (a proposal for a 1960s micro-flat cooler than a James Bond vodka martini) are taken on show to museums and galleries worldwide.
		Archigram comprised a group of like-minded graduates fresh from the Architectural Association school, London, (Cook, Greene, Webb) and three experienced young architects who had been working with the London county council architect's department on such projects as the South Bank Centre.
		"Archigram," said the architect David Rock, in his Royal Gold Medal citation, "was a necessary irritant." The rather prim and starchy sensitivities of the British architectural profession in the early 1960s were cratched and teased in Archigram's comic book-style magazine.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /critic/feature/0,1169,662929,00.html (871 words)

	ArchiNed News: Archigram
		The importance of Archigram for architecture in the 1960s was that, similar to what was happening in other spheres of (cultural) life, it challenged the established order and sought a language to express a new order.
		Archigram are doing everything within their power to prolong their mythical status as avant-garde heroes for as long as possible, and they're doing it in style.
		Archigram experimental architecture 1961-1974 is on show through February 3, 2002, at Westelijk Handelsterrein, Van Vollenhovenstraat 15, Rotterdam (5 minutes walk from the Kunsthal).
	www.classic.archined.nl /news/0201/archigram_eng.html (854 words)

	Archigram archives to go public
		Some 4,000 drawings, models and audio tapes produced by Archigram is to be catalogued and digitised over three years and made available to the public on a special website.
		Archigram dominated the architectural avant garde in the 1960s and early...
		Archigram dominated the architectural avant garde in the 1960s and early 1970s with its pop-inspired visions of a technocratic future.
	www.we-make-money-not-art.com /archives/007977.php (670 words)

	Untitled Document
		Archigram is supposed to be about a kind of 1960s grooviness: loon pants, lava lamps, men with moustaches and birds in miniskirts.
		Archigram’s contradictory dreams saw a world that was either full of technology-as-architecture, with cities as gigantic gadgets, or of technology that superseded architecture, so we could sell our houses and live in fields once more – a kind of pastoral futurism.
		Archigram is important because it showed that architecture could be about culture, and could explore the perversity and darkness at the heart of modern life.
	www.icon-magazine.co.uk /issues/013/archigram_text.htm (892 words)

	Gabion: Amazing Archigram: how a bunch of English architectural fantasists conquered the world. 1/5
		When the Archigram exhibition opens at London's Design Museum this Saturday (April 2), it is the final gig of an extraordinary ten-year international tour.
		In fact, Archigram was not very interested in buildings, or static objects of any kind.
		Archigram's manifesto position was change and movement and flexibility.
	www.hughpearman.com /articles5/archigram.html (353 words)

	ARCHIGRAM -- Experimental Architecture 1961-1974 (English) / Contemporary Art Center, ATM
		Archigram is the name of a group of experimental British architects active from the 1960s to the early 1970s, and is also the title of a magazine that they published.
		1936) and the five other architects who were the members of Archigram operated freely between the fields of poetry, architecture, and design, among others, creating their expressions of pop graphics and collages making reference to images from the period's advertisements and science-fiction comics.
		Borrowing from sci-fi comics and advertising images, "Archigram" attempted to propose new modes of cities and architecture within the consumer society, and continued to be published until its 9th issue in 1970.
	www.arttowermito.or.jp /archigram/archi.html (1297 words)

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