Imagine that the animated yellow submarine of the 1968 Beatles film sprouts a dozen or so telescoping legs, grows to the size of a city, and walks over to join three or four more just like it. This mobile architecture—the product of frenzied drawing more than psychotropic drugs—is just one of the provocations from the prolific 1960s British collective Archigram included in this book.
Archigram arose from the idea of an urgent architectural telegram: what started as a sixpence pamphlet published in a northwest London basement in 1961 grew to become an architectural movement. Archigram directed 10 printed salvos at the profession through 1974. They were written and drawn by a group of moonlighting, fun-loving, pen-wielding Brits led by Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron, and Michael Webb. These pamphlets, reproduced close to original size, serve as the connective tissue binding assorted essays and projects that fill the 300 pages of this lively compendium.
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