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Archigram
Archigram was a group of young London-based architects, Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb, who came together in the early 1960s According to Archigram there was only a short period of about two years, between 1962 and 1964, when they were all in the same place at the same time, which is when they produced their first major exhibition «Living City» (ICA London 1963). During that time they produced a succession of radically fantastical and provocatively influential projects based on mechanical invention and pop culture: «Plug-In City», «Living Pod,» «Instant City,» and «Ad Hoc» among them. The Archigram Group was awarded the 2002 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture.
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