Archigram: Making a Facsimile

Inspired by comic-book culture, Pop art, psychedelia, the space race, sci-fi, Constructivism, and Buckminster Fuller, the hugely influential British collective Archigram was the epitome of 1960s avant-garde architecture.

The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union celebrates the release of Archigram: The Magazine—the first-ever full facsimile of the group’s formally inventive, conceptually daring, and historically consequential magazine—with a special exhibition that focuses on the publications’ highly inventive uses of paper. From ingenious folds and cut-outs to wallets, pockets, and pop-ups, Archigram was a feat of bookmaking that remains unrivaled in the history of little magazines and remains a trove of inspiration, for students not only of architecture, but also of art and design.

The exhibition Archigram: Making a Facsimile, held in the School of Architecture’s Third Floor Hallway Gallery, is produced in collaboration with D.A.P.