| Description |
144 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Boys at heart / Mike Webb -- A comment from Arata Isozaki -- A comment from Peter Reyner Banham -- A comment from Hans Hollein -- A comment from Peter Blake -- 1. Architecture -- 2. Expendability and the consumer -- 3. Living city -- 4. Zoom -- 5. Plug-in -- 6. The capsule -- 7. Bursting the seams -- 8. Control and choice -- 9. Open ends -- 10. Instant city -- 11. Features : Monte Carlo -- 12. Gardener's notebook -- 13. Mound, ground and hidden delights -- 14. Dreams and manifestations -- The Archigram Group -- Chronology |
| Summary |
"In late 1960, in various flats in Hampstead, a loose group of people started to meet: to criticize projects, to concoct letters to the press, to make competition projects, and generally prop one another up against the boredom of working in London architectural offices. The main British magazines of the time did not publish student work and Archigram was responding to this as much as to the sterility of the scene. The title Archigram came from the notion of a more simple and urgent item than a Journal, like a telegram or aerogramme - hence, "archi(tecture)-gram.""--BOOK JACKET. "This facsimile edition of a book originally published in 1972 is a chronicle of the work of Archigram as told by the members themselves. It includes material published in early issues of the Journal, as well as numerous essays, comics, collages, poems, and fantastical architecture projects. The book is updated with a new introduction from longtime member Mike "Spider" Webb."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Originally published: Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, 1972 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Archigram (Group)
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| SUBJECT |
Archigram http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no90003691 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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Archigram. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no90003691
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| Subject |
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
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Architecture -- Research.
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| Author |
Cook, Peter, 1936- editor
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Archigram (Group), issuing body
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| LC no. |
99039255 |
| ISBN |
1568981945 (alkaline paper) |
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9781568981949 (alkaline paper) |
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