Archigram Cook Peter (5 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Very Good. BEAUTIFUL COPY!!.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. In total 11 oblong sheets (25.4 x 40.5cm), printed in various colours of ink on various colours of stock, stapled at one side and folded once to make a booklet, one sheet with the (unused) packet of night-scented stock still stapled to it. 'No longer do the marvels of technology have to be declaimed as a dramatic or wonderful or even a particularly significant thing any more. The world can be complex but could be relaxed as well.' In the light of conversations 'in cities spread far apart' about 'effort, survival, infiltration, and the increasing irrelevancy of "nice design"', this issue offers things to do: 'things to make, things to read, things to comment upon, things to plant and to grow, things to be mailed back to us'. Contents include the introduction of the 'Archizones' project ('Archigram's International Interchange'), the 'instant city', Dreams Come True Inc, the Room of 1000 Delights, the Medikit project, Osakagram, Arata Isozaki, and in general 'Gardening and the easing of tension between the mechanical and the natural'. Contributors include Tony Rickaby (plus the cover), Ron Herron, Mike Webb, David Greene, and Cook. Slightly rubbed, the first few corners somewhat creased/dog-eared, the lower corner with a tiny nick, the whole with a mild vertical bend which has little impact, particularly inside, the staples a touch rusty, and outwardly a little shelfworn in general, with the occasional spot or small mark. Loosely inserted are a flyer for An Instant City Workshop in Nottingham and a leaflet for 'Architectural Design' ('AD') magazine.…

First Edition. 20 x 14cm. Side-stapled paperback, unpaginated [22pp, including 2-fold outs pages]. Some text overcropped, as usual. Pages printed recto only. Cover designed by Rae and Ben Fether. Introduces architectural, artistic and highly idealised imagined concepts of 'crust' and 'eruption' as applied to design, culminating in the design for 'The Molehill': "a build-up of crust that embraces the inter-activity within". This is then juxtaposed with 'The Cluster'. The diagonal direction is also examined as a crucial consideration for designing multi-level cities. Includes 'Computor City: A Synthesised Metropolis with Electronic Changeability' imagining a computer-mediated metropolis. Replete with counter-cultural and contemporary popular culture symbolism. Some scuffing to the front cover's upper staple. Otherwise very good condition.…

First Edition. 30 x 30cm. Side-stapled paperback, unpaginated [tete-beche head-to-toe format, the front-to-back pagination runs as follows: 11 preliminary page strips slightly under half-size, followed by 11 leaves full size - mostly printed recto-only]. Iconic colour cover designed by Geoffrey Raymond Reeve. A scarce and very fragile samizdat-quality publication combining pop art with architecture, which includes six A4 advertising sheets (three duplicates) surveying Archigram's legacy - presumably printed post-1972 - on varying colour paper stock printed recto-only consisting of: three sheets with the slogans "anything is possible" and "It's all the same", a sheet relating to "Capsules and Pods", a sheet entitled "Amazing Archigram", and other entitled "Living City - City Interchange and Living City - Montreal Tower 1963", all with foldcrease through centre. The magazine itself has slight wear and negligible dog-earring to the edges, rear cover working slightly loose, but otherwise complete and has been protected in a green card wrap.…

Pictorial wrappers. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Archigram Nine, the 1970 1st edition of the final issue. Quarto, unpaginated (11 sheets folded and printed landscape format). Illustrated, seed packet stapled to one sheet, two printed sheets laid-in. A Fine copy in original stapled wrappers. A scarce periodical, in excellent condition, with all inserts present. Includes "Archizones: A Survey", "Butterflies", "Plants", "Room of 1,000 Delights" and "Free Seed Offer".…