Archigram Essays

  • What Is New Brutalism?

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    than POP; I am hoping to point out a rather startling mutation from the New Brutalism discourse. In 1961 Crosby left the AD and began a rather unfortunate venture at the builders’ company Taylor Woodrow, where he worked with the six members of Archigram on the design of a new Euston Station and a dozen large-scale

  • Futurism Essay

    1194 Words  | 3 Pages

    futurist architecture practices and conceptual representation, the form and structure become more and more complex due to human new innovation and technology. “The Plug-in City” in Figure 5, designed by Peter Cook in 1964, who is the member of Archigram. It is a digital drawing that proposes a suppositional city with a modular housing which shows a new generation. “Archigram’s radical suggestion to reveal infrastructural elements and reverse traditional building hierarchies,” 10 and they believe

  • Juhani Pallasmaa's Essay On Tradition And Modernity In India

    2358 Words  | 5 Pages

    alongside visual symmetry of boulevards and grand scale public spaces. 2) The second link is the growing dominance of visuals in modern life. Architecture relies heavily on vision. Fig 1.3 Monte Carlo Project, Archigram

  • Modern Architecture Essay

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    To pursue the impossible and the unknown and seek for the unique is one the most distinctive characteristics of our human nature. Exploring limitations and possibilities in resolving problems has driven societies to evolve and realize the secrets of our incredibly intricate world as well as understanding our own nature and producing philosophical notions which developed our culture. This characteristic has also been part of architecture, translated in radical designs capturing the imagination of

  • Ron Herron's Definition Of A Walking City

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    larger walking metropolises and then disperse when their concentrated power was no longer necessary. Individual buildings or structures could also be mobile, moving wherever their owner wanted or needs dictated.” (avant-garde architectural journal Archigram, Ron Herron 1964) In my opinion