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M+ museum in Hong Kong has bought the entire archive of influential British architecture collective Archigram, despite attempts to block the overseas sale.

M+ announced ‘Archigram Cities’, a series of online and offline events in November 2020 organised in collaboration with the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong and Power Station of Art in Shanghai. In 2019, the Archigram archive entered the collections of M+. Through its dense layering of infrastructure, media, and commerce, Hong Kong can be read as an ‘Archigram city’, and the archive’s presence there offers the potential to trace new, situated lines of inquiry in…

Architects Peter Cook and Dennis Crompton discuss Archigram's Plug-In City concept for an elevated city of capsule homes in this exclusive VDF video.

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The possibilities of architectural drawing are endless once the artist frees themself from the idea that they are drawing buildings. They are not, not really, even when they literally are.

Archigram’s “Walking city” Concept The Walking City was an idea proposed by British architect Ron Herron in 1964. In an article in avant-garde architecture journal Archigram, Ron Herron proposed building massive mobile robotic structures, with their own intelligence, that could freely roam the world, moving to wherever their resources or manufacturing abilities were needed. Various walking cities could interconnect with each other to form larger 'walking metropolises' when needed, and then…

Archigram imagery taken out of context Ben Terrett asked me to jot down some thoughts on the way Archigram worked, as part of a piece he’s pulled together on them, Pentagram and Magnum (the other p…