Early on, some of its members were involved in the design of the South Bank Arts Centre in London (1960–64) in the early 1970s the group was commissioned to design an Entertainments Centre in Monte Carlo (a project which collapsed, with little explanation given in this book). On the one hand, to a first approximation, the group never built anything. Simon Sadler's subtitle, Architecture without Architecture, is a double entendre. Archigram was a band of radical British architects-Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron, Michael Webb-but it was even more the name of the newsletter/magazine the group produced between 19. 1) read the citation in 2002 when the Royal Institute of British Architects gave its major prize to a group that had once defied all its conventions. "Archigram is a marvelously fitting choice for a Royal Gold Medal" (p. The 1960s went away and now they're coming back.
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