Archigram has always been more rock star than starchitect. The six-member group-Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron, and Michael Webb-produced some of the most revolutionary designs of the 1960s and early 1970s. Drawing on consumer culture as well as new technologies, their self-published pamphlets challenged stuffy high Modernism and the architectural status quo by envisioning, among other fantastical things, walking cities. As the bad boys of pop architecture, they've made giddy fans out of students, academics, and practitioners over the years. Yet it was still a surprise when the Archigram Archival Project, an online visual database of the group's work that launched in April, immediately went viral, racking up 100,000 page views in its first week.
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