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I welcome images, videos, quotes into my world; doesn't mean I created them.
I welcome images, videos, quotes into my world; doesn't mean I created them.
Ron Herron | Free time node
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By far the coolest architectural digital archive/repository
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The Instant City (1968) - Archigram
The Instant City (1968) is a mobile “event,” travels between various dreary and monotonous towns, deploying and saturating them with an over-stimulation of media, technology, popculture, and cultural space.
Archigram’s Instant City
A (New) Typeface for Archigram
Everything about Archigram was excessive. No, not in the sense in which that term is bandied about by schools of parametricism, which seek to infuse ideology—including, among other things, a strange religiosity—in their world of scientific dilettante-ism, trite and obfuscated discourse, opaque diagrams, and solipsistic modeling (though, it might be said, these schools share with Archigram, especially with the latter’s later iteration, a similarly overwrought aesthetic). Rather, what was excessive about Archigram were its communicative networks, the vastness of its production output, its relentless optimism, and its tediously drawn hyper-structures which even exceeded the limits of hyper-capitalism, which proved incapable of realizing them.
But you’re not here for tired critique or sloppy attempts at historization, are you? You came for the images, which were created by graphic designer Eric Hu. For his project, entitled “Archigram: A Love Story”, Hu has made a 17-foot-tall scroll on which he fashioned a customized typeface—which spells out “Archigram”—comprised of fragments of the collective’s designs for a technocratic future of megastructures, walking cities, and living pods. Hu describes his poster as a megastructure in its own right, likening its intimidating scale and daunting, if not altogether unreadable, detailing to the “passion and rigor” of Archigram’s work. Thankfully, Hu designed the poster to fold into a book so you can look at all the splendid drawings up-close.
Ron Herron | Seaside Bubbles
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Ron Herron. Walking City on the Ocean, project, Exterior perspective.
1966. Cut-and-pasted printed and photographic papers and graphite covered with polymer sheet, 11 1/2 x 17” (29.2 x 43.2cm).
Fun Palace | Cedric Price, 1964
