ARCHIGRAM

The exhibition presented the conceptually innovative and visionary projects of the English architecture group ARCHIGRAM (Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron, Michael Weeb). In their imaginary world, the artists responded to space travel and the moon landing, subculture and the Beatles, science fiction and new materials of the 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1963 and 1975, the group anticipated the global connection between culture and technology, thereby also influencing the architectural debate in Austria. From the beginning, the magazine Archigram, published by the group, served as a common basis for discussion and as a link between the highly individual personalities. The pluralism of architectural form characteristic of their work can also be understood as an expression of their agreement on common goals. In the early 1990s, the work of ARCHIGRAM once again became the focus of the debate on future urbanity. As part of the exhibition, a symposium was held on the work of ARCHIGRAM questioning the future of urban design.

The exhibition was subsequently shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.