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    Archigram was a UK-based collective of young architects formed in 1961 that aimed to explore radical alternatives to urban design through concepts like the Plug-in City, Walking City, and Instant City. The Plug-in City proposed a megastructure with movable living units that could be "plugged in" as desired. The Walking City imagined entire cities moving on legs. The Instant City was an airship providing temporary urban experiences to small communities. Archigram's provocative yet unrealized concepts explored shaking off conventions through a technocratic and optimistic vision for the future of cities.

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    Archigram was a UK-based collective of young architects formed in 1961 that aimed to explore radical alternatives to urban design through concepts like the Plug-in City, Walking City, and Instant City. The Plug-in City proposed a megastructure with movable living units that could be "plugged in" as desired. The Walking City imagined entire cities moving on legs. The Instant City was an airship providing temporary urban experiences to small communities. Archigram's provocative yet unrealized concepts explored shaking off conventions through a technocratic and optimistic vision for the future of cities.

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    Archigram was a UK-based collective of young architects formed in 1961 that aimed to explore radical alternatives to urban design through concepts like the Plug-in City, Walking City, and Instant City. The Plug-in City proposed a megastructure with movable living units that could be "plugged in" as desired. The Walking City imagined entire cities moving on legs. The Instant City was an airship providing temporary urban experiences to small communities. Archigram's provocative yet unrealized concepts explored shaking off conventions through a technocratic and optimistic vision for the future of cities.

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    ARCHIGRAM

    CONCEPT
     Archigram was a UK-based art and architecture collective
    that came to prominence in the 1960s.
     As part of the burgeoning avant garde of the time, they
    aimed to explore extreme alternatives to urban design as
    a response to what they perceived to be the dullness and
    intellectual conservatism of modern architecture.
     Archigram was formed in London in 1961 by young 
    architects Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton,
    David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb.
     Virtually all of their plans and ideas remained unrealised,
    freeing them to explore unorthodox and outlandish ideas
    which they often published in their Archigram magazine.

    ABOUT ARCHIGRAM
     They were defined less by a specific set of
    principles, than by an optimistic spirit that
    corresponded to the prevailing mood of the 1960s,
    looking to shake off out-dated ideas and
    conventions. 
     They were inspired by the technocratic ideas of 
    Buckminster Fuller as well as the American Beat
    movement and Pop art.

    PRINCIPLES AND INSPIRATION


     Plug-In City designedby Peter Cook.
    Walking city concept by Ron Herron.
    The Instant City .

    IDEAS AND CONCEPTS


    Between 1960 and 1974 Archigram created over 900 drawings,
    among them the plan for the “Plug-in City” by Peter Cook. 
    This provocative project suggests a hypothetical fantasy city,
    containing modular residential units that “plug in” to a central
    infrastructural mega machine.
    The Plug-in City is in fact not a city, but a constantly evolving
    megastructure that incorporates residences, transportation and
    other essential services--all movable by giant cranes.
    This eschewed the orthodox assumption that buildings should be
    fixed in place, instead proposing a permanent infrastructural 
    scaffold capable of supporting crane-mounted modular living 
    units that could be moved around or ‘plugged in’ as desired by
    the occupants.

    PLUG IN CITY CONCEPT


    PLUG IN CITY
     Ron Herron’s concept of the Walking City was even more outlandish. He
    rejected the notion that a city is a fixed location and instead re-
    imagined it as a super-organism, capable of moving on giant legs until
    finding a suitable place to settle.
      building massive, artificially intelligent mobile robotic structures that
    could freely roam a post-apocalyptic world, moving to wherever the
    structures’ resources or manufacturing abilities were needed.
     Various walking cities could interconnect with each other to form
    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.
     "Walking City imagines a future in which borders and boundaries are
    abandoned in favor of a nomadic lifestyle among groups of people
    worldwide."

    concept of the Walking City 


    WALKING CITY
     The Instant City was a concept in which an airship would fly
    from place to place providing entertainment and educational
    resources for a metropolis. This would temporarily land in small 
    communities, enabling them to experience a different kind of 
    urban life.

    INSTANT CITY

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