This presentation is about the first-generation urban designer Colin Rowe Archigram.ppt

This presentation is about the first-generation urban designer Colin Rowe Archigram

1. Introduction
The Archigram group consisted of:
Warren Chalk: critical and questioning individual
Peter Cook: Most public member of the Archigram Group. Invented situations and solved
them graphically .
Dennis Crompton: concern on machine, technique, and systems.
David Greene: conceptual thinker. Thought of the conceptual possibilities of architecture .
Ron Harron: Was said to “Draw like a dream”.
Mike Webb: Lived in America for a long
Gave Archigram easier access to American values and trends, and
exposed America to Archigram’s works. Portal between countries.

2. Archigram (Architecture Telegram) are the most seminal architectural groups of
the modern age. They created some of the 20th century's most iconic images and
projects, rethought the relationship of technology, society and architecture, predicted
with truly global impact.
Archigram

3. Besides these powerful joint themes, the differences between the various members of
the group gave their work a special charge and an ongoing capacity for challenge
Archigram group

4. ARCHIGRAM dominated the architectural in
the 1960s and early 1970s with its playful, pop-
inspired visions of a technocratic future after
its formation in 1961
pushed the flexible, systematic feedback logic
further visualizing mobile cities.

5. -New forms of
public space within
an infrastructure of
gigantic frames
called “urban
forums”
-Consisted of a
mega structure with
removable, use
specific units
-The use of
interchangeable
parts allows for
prefabricated and
simple organization
of parts to create a
whole very quickly
and efficiently.
Plug in City [1964]
central structure and circulation system

6. Graphic Comparison
Compare temporary to permanent structure, and amount of user circulation.
Plug in City [1964]

8. Proposal for a nomadic city infrastructure in which urban utilities would not be
tied to a specific location. Originally called Cities Moving
Walking City (1964)

9. Most famous of
Archigram projects,
started trend of mobility.

City sized pod with legs.
Allowed the city to move
locations, for weather
changes,
natural disasters,
economical needs .
Walking City (1964)

10. Walking City sketches

11. The aim of the Archigram Group that its members wanted to change civilization
on every possible level - physically, socially and culturally.
The name Archigram was invented to describe a home-made magazine put together
in 1961 by the young architects, Peter Cook and David Greene, joining first with Mike
Webb. This free-form magazine was designed to explore new projects and new thinking
which were overturning the strict modernist dictates of the 1960s
The aim of the magazine, and their work, was to break the barriers
of the norm, and to open the minds of their readers to new forms through their built
work and new statements through their literature.
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