Articles by Benedict Hobson

In the final instalment of our exclusive Archigram video series for VDF, architect Dennis Crompton explains that the avant-garde architecture group didn’t just want to create conceptual projects and almost realised a building in Monte Carlo. Archigram was an experimental collective of architects that became famous for its radical architecture concepts in the 1960s and

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Architect Peter Cook explains Archigram’s concept for a temporary city that can be set up overnight in the third instalment of our exclusive video series with the radical architecture group for VDF. Developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Archigram’s Instant City concept is a transportable kit of parts that can be quickly assembled

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Architects Peter Cook and Dennis Crompton discuss Archigram’s influential concept for an elevated city of capsule homes in the second instalment of our exclusive video series with the radical architecture group for VDF. Developed between 1963 and 1966, Plug-In City is a conceptual city comprising personalised pre-fabricated homes that are inserted into high-rise megastructures. The

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In the first of a series of video interviews with former members of Archigram for VDF, architect Peter Cook recounts how the influential avant-garde architecture group rose to prominence in the 1960s. Archigram was an experimental collective of architects that became famous for its radical architecture concepts drawing from the emerging technologies and consumer culture

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Pioneering architect James Wines laments the predominance of digitally created forms in architecture and calls for more buildings that “reach out to people” in the first of a series of talks VDF is broadcasting in partnership with Friedman Benda. “All cities are becoming exactly alike,” Wines told curator and historian Glenn Adamson in New York

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