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WORLD | "A protest magazine against the stodginess of the architectural establishment. It remains so. Ever little and huge in its impact." —Beatriz Colomina
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| | | Archigram: The MagazineEdited with text by Peter Cook. Text by Archigram et al. Reader's guide edited by Thomas Evans, Steve Kroeter. Text by Peter Cook, David Grahame Shane, Reyner Banham, Shirley Surya, Helen Castle. Contributions by Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Aric Chen, Beatriz Colomina, Mike Davies, Odile Decq, Neil Denari, Norman Foster, Kenneth Frampton, Nicholas Grimshaw, Tom Heneghan, Ivan Harbour, Steven Holl, Bjarke Ingels, et al.
 Architecture’s most influential, innovative and beloved underground magazine, reissued for the first time in a handsome clamshell boxInspired by comic-book culture, Pop art, psychedelia, the space race, sci-fi, Constructivism and Buckminster Fuller, the hugely influential British collective Archigram were the epitome of 1960s avant-garde architecture. Their self-published, lo-fi but materially ingenious magazine Archigram, begun in 1961, announced their ideas for such visionary concepts as "Walking City," "Plug-In City" and "Instant City." It also served to connect the international avant-garde of the 1960s, as they forged links with the Metabolists in Japan, Frei Otto, Utopie and Haus-Rucker-Co in Europe, and Buckminster Fuller in the US—where they were also championed by critics such as Charles Jencks and Reyner Banham, who brought Archigram's famous fourth pop-up issue to the US in 1966. Today it is one of the rarest major small-press publications of the 1960s, with individual issues selling for a minimum of c. $600. Archigram's influence has proved enduring, perhaps most famously in its widely acknowledged impact on Richard Rogers' and Renzo Piano's Pompidou Center. Its members also taught and influenced the likes of Bernard Tschumi and Zaha Hadid, and inspired a later generation of nineties and naughties modernists embracing the potential of technology, such as Future Systems, Foreign Office Architects, Diller and Scofidio + Renfro, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby.
This authorized publication features exacting facsimiles of all ten issues (from number 1 in 1961 to the final issue 9 ½ in 1974). All the original surprises and idiosyncrasies are faithfully reproduced: flyers, pockets, a pop-up centerfold, posters, gatefolds and an electronic resistor. Accompanying the facsimile issues is a fully illustrated reader's guide featuring essays by Peter Cook, David Grahame Shane, and Reyner Banham; tributes from the architectural community, including Tadao Ando, Kenneth Frampton, Norman Foster, Zamp Kelp, Patrik Schumaker and David Rockwell; an index of key concepts and contents in each issue; a scrapbook of previously unseen archival images; a bibliography of the partners' publications; and biographies.
The architect-collaborative group Archigram was established in London in 1961 by Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, Ron Herron, David Greene, and Michael Webb. Working together until 1975, the group operated as an experimental thinktank, producing a magazine, projects, models, exhibitions and proposals that represented a shift in how architectural practice is considered, prioritizing processes and responsive structures for living over the notion of architecture as a static, form-based commodity. Influenced by popular culture and responding to the proliferation of technological advances at the time, as well as recognizing the increasing social and political discontent, Archigram's production emphasized mobility and flexibility in ways that continue to have currency today.
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| | | FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/18/2025 “A new generation of architecture must arise—with forms and spaces which seem to reject the precepts of ‘Modern.’” Pictured here, the single typed and hand-diagrammed interior page of Archigram issue 1, May 1961 (folded and wrapped cover not shown.) According to Helen Castle, Director of Publishing and Learning Content at RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects), this issue, produced in an edition of just 400 copies, was printed off a copy machine across from the office where Archigram founders Peter Cook and David Green were working in 1961. Famously, a piece of a potato was used to print the red dot. While our forthcoming facsimile edition will not call for cutting up potatoes to print color on issue 1, it will faithfully reproduce all 9.5 original editions of the magazine in all its cooky, experimental, manifesto-positive glory according to the standards of the remaining members of the collective—including Peter Cook and Dennis Crompton, who helped enormously with the production of this and every other issue before his death in January 2025.
Our Kickstarter campaign to bring Archigram back to life comes to an end tonight, Wednesday, March 19, at 6 PM. Thanks so much to all who have contributed so far. And to those who would still like to join, we welcome you to our publishing adventure!
continue to blogFROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/19/2025 About two years ago, we were approached by Steve Kroeter of Designers & Books, publisher of the cult 2017 facsimile reprint of Italian futurist Fortunato Depero’s 1927 “bolted book,” Depero Futurista, about the possibility of collaborating on a different, even more ambitious facsimile reprint. When we heard the project concerned Archigram, one of the rarest, most ingenious and influential small press serials of the 1960s, we were immediately all-in. Inspired by Pop art, psychedelia, comic-book culture, sci-fi, Constructivism and the space race, Archigram magazine was founded in London by architects Warren Chalk (1927−88), Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton (1935−2025), Ron Herron (1930−94), David Greene and Michael Webb. From its launch in 1961 to issue 9 ½ in 1974, Archigram challenged and dazzled the international avant-garde across the worlds of architecture, design and art, and it is now considered a key, highly cited but rarely seen document of the creative counterculture. Only a handful of publicly accessible full sets are known in the world, including at Hong Kong’s M+ museum, Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and Columbia University’s Avery Library. Now on Kickstarter, for publication in October 2025, Archigram: The Magazine—the first-ever authorized facsimile of all 9.5 issues—will contain all the surprises and idiosyncrasies of the original issues, from flyers and pockets to posters, gatefolds, a pop-up centerfold and even an electronic “resistor.” Also included, a Reader’s Guide featuring essays by Peter Cook, David Grahame Shane and Reyner Banham; 28 tributes from architectural luminaries; an index of key concepts, projects and names; a scrapbook of previously unseen archival images; and more. Housed in a clamshell box, this faithful facsimile will be brought to life by book designers Julia Ma and Miko McGinty. continue to blog | FORTHCOMING AND NEW: ARCHITECTURE |  | The Museum of Modern Art, New YorkISBN: 9781633451735
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