Archigram

Between the 1960s to 1970s

Young architects— Peter Cook, Warren Chalk, Dennis Crompton, Michael Webb, David Greene and, Ron Herron,

A plan to build an extraordinary building that can be walked. This low building is like a heavy land airship, sitting on top of eight periscope legs, allowing it to travel across land and sea, allowing its residents to escape from war and natural disasters, or just to find new pastures.

These may sound like futuristic fantasies, but the Archigram members are adamant that their unconventional drawings and collages tackled real issues.

This freedom to move unencumbered around the world was just one of the utopian ideas that Archigram explored; another fascination was how technology could be used to improve human health and happiness.

Share their plans for a better and brighter future

The term "mobile home" used to mean more than just owners of motorhomes or yurts. In the 1960s and 1970s, a six avant-garde London architecture group calling itself Archigram began radical urban design, which specifically included planning for the entire mobile city. These designs attracted labels such as "neo-futurism" and "pro-consumerism", but after the group's dissolution in 1974, these designs seemed to have been forgotten or considered impractical and only theoretical.

Perhaps Archigram's legacy is its ease, its excitement for things, its willingness to create spontaneously, not afraid of colors, not afraid of bold forms, freshness," he said. "Create pleasant architectural concepts.

These designs attract labels such as "new futurism" and "pro-consumerism"