Tuesday 14th January, 6 – 9pm: Archigram 10 Book Launch

A year on from The Archigram Opera at Shoreditch Arts Club, the pioneering group of architects are back to launch Archigram 10, a collection of new work by Peter Cook, critics and architects whose work resonate with the Archigram ethos.

Archigram 10 is the latest publication from Archigram - the infamous group of pioneering architectural theorists that changed architecture irrevocably in the 1960s and 70s. It comes 50 years since the group's last issue – Archigram 9½ – released in 1974. Archigram has reformed to examine where architecture is currently and where it might go next.

This new edition is set to be published by Circa Press and edited by Peter Cook, with contributions from Archigram members Dennis Crompton, David Greene and Michael Webb. Along with new work by Peter Cook there are contributions from critics and a host of architects, young and old, whose work resonates with the Archigram ethos.

Formed in London, in 1960, Archigram turned conventional architectural thinking on its head. Neo-futurist, anti-heroic, and pro-consumerist, the group tapped into the 1960s’ Pop Art zeitgeist, and drew inspiration from technologies not conventionally applied to architecture. The result was a family of hypothetical objects/buildings that moved, grew, flew and walked. It inspired generations of architects to radically rethink the confines of traditional practice and imagine a better future.

War­ren Chalk (1927−88), Peter Cook, Den­nis Cromp­ton, Ron Her­ron (1930−94), David Greene and Michael Webb are the founder mem­bers of Archi­gram. Their the­o­ret­i­cal work began in the 1960s as a cry against ​‘the crap then going up in Lon­don’. Although they nev­er built a build­ing togeth­er, their influ­ence over a gen­er­a­tion of archi­tects con­tin­ues to be felt today. The group was award­ed the RIBA Roy­al Gold Medal in 2002.

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