Movement
Archigram
Explore in the Atlas →A London avant-garde group (c.1961–1974) led by Peter Cook and Ron Herron, whose speculative projects — Plug-In City, Walking City, Instant City — imagined a pop, technological, disposable and endlessly mobile architecture of consumer modernity.
Ephemerality Fantasy
Details
- Origin
- London, United Kingdom
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Reason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- influenced Blobitecture
- influenced High-Tech Architecture
Referenced by
- Metabolism influenced
- Archizoom Associati associated with
Sources
- Peter Cook (ed.). Archigram. Studio Vista, 1972.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Archigram." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/archigram/. Accessed July 17, 2026.