Beyond Archigram; the structure of circulation.

9780415394765

Beyond Archigram; the structure of circulation.

Steiner, Hadas A.

Routledge

2009

252 pages

$150.00

Hardcover

NA2750

In this study of Archigram magazine, a magazine published by the architectural group based at the Architectural Association in London, UK, that was "one of the foremost manifestations of the postwar neo- avant-garde," Sterner (architecture and planning, State U. of New York at Buffalo) is principally concerned with the representation and dissemination of architectural ideas. He focuses on how ideas went from the pages of the magazine and developed and manifested in later years. The particular ideas he traces are: infrastructure-ready service cores; the turn away from rigid materials toward the potentials of the inflatable skin; and the strategies the Archigram group used to combine segregated units into dynamic, reflexive, social settings.

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