Archigram Archives
JA
May 16
Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Archigram (as the group of architects was collectively known), published a regular magazine of ‘new projects and new thinking’ which, according to the archival website, featured some of the ‘most seminal, iconoclastic and influential’ designs of the modern age.
A good portion of these drawings are now available online – it’s at once futuristic yet nostalgic, inventive and bizarre. A few finds are below, have a look at the rest here.
Gasket House: Speculative proposal for a housing system in which varied plastic living capsules are suspended from a megastructure frame.
Blow-Out Village: Speculative proposal for mobile village using hovercraft, hydraulics and inflatable technologies
Expro 1: Research and presentation on exhibitions display options at Olympia Exhibition Centre, west London.
Air House Project: Proposal for a series of inflatable dwellings as part of an exhibition for the Commonwealth Festival, located in the lodge of Cardiff Castle.
Manzak: Speculative design for remote controlled audio-visual entertainments robot.
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Comments
17 May 10 at 11:05
My girlfriend (an architect) just about squee’d herself to death when we went to Mumok (museum of modern art in Vienna) on our Great European Holiday and there was an Archigram exhibition on. I was pretty damn impressed by the visions they had, the moving city especially was just insane thinking for the time.
...17 May 10 at 13:09
I know – I could just waste hours on the online archives.
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