Articolo WWF punti 2 e 3 Ross - Documenti Google. Collective (unsolicited) architectures. Collective Architectures: trucks, containers, collectives. Gli studenti della Pantera - edizioni Alegre - ilmegafonoquotidiano. Oxford DNB article: Archigram 2013-09. Archigram (act. 1961–1974) was a group of six architects, based principally in London, who were associated with the preparation of an avant-garde magazine, Archigram, published in nine main issues between 1961 and 1970, with a further ‘half-issue’ in 1974.
The magazine's title was derived from a conjunction of the words ‘architecture’ and ‘telegram’ and from 1963 the name was also adopted by the group's members: Peter Cook (b. 1936), Warren Chalk, Dennis Crompton (b. 1935), David Greene (b. 1937), Ron Herron, and Michael Webb (b. 1937). The group's existence was never formally declared, nor was it ever dissolved, though between 1970 and 1974 a London architectural office—first at 20 Newman Passage, and from 1971 at 52 Endell Street, Covent Garden—was officially in practice as Archigram Architects, staffed principally by Chalk, Cook, and Herron. Archigram's architectural images rank as some the most memorable of the 1960s. Milton Keynes Adventure Playground, Archigram, Calvert End, UK, 1972. The Archigram archives are now fully online at the University of Westminster.
Given the irreverent speculation their practice liked to engage in it’s appropriate, I think, that their only public built structure was a playground: an adventure space for unconstrained construction in the presumptive ‘new town’ utopia (1967) of Milton Keynes, frequented by architecture-types and their children in spite of its leaky roof. It has long since been demolished, but Iqbal Alaam at flickr has a couple of vintage photos of the ‘boat’ (the smokestacks were actually ventilation for the toilets), showing spaces for play on both the ground level and the roof terrace.