Archigram, First Edition (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st. Pictorial boards, 159 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), plans; 31 cm. Text in German and English. Published to accompany the exhibition held at Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany, 14th May to 18th October, 2016. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A large-format coffee-table book. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "This text explores extraordinary 20th-century utopian architecture from the prominent architecture groups Archigram and Future Systems. Filled with drawings, collages, and models, this book examines how each firm's utopian vision was shaped by the times in which it was conceived. The designs by Archigram, a Londonbased firm headed by Peter Cook, Ron Herron and Dennis Crompton, date back to the moon landing and an era filled with hope for new beginnings. By contrast, the latter project, the work of Future Systems, headed by Czech architect Jan Kaplick and David Nixon, was conceptualized at the height of the Cold War, when the future appeared gloomy. While Archigram conceived organic architectures to ensure survival in inhospitable environments, the technical looking designs by Future Systems are intended for use in more friendly climes. Although the majority of these utopian designs were never realized, their plans offer a fascinating look at how architects prepare for a world they can only imagine." - Publisher. Size: 4to. Collectible.

Paperback. Condition: Near fine in wraps. First Edition. 12 x 15cm 448pp near fine paperback which includes an essay by the founder, Peter Cook: 'Some Notes on the Archigram Syndrome'.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Fine condition. Published by Pie Books, Japan, 2005, 116 pages, large softcover in thick wraps with printed clear plastic dust jacket, 12" by 9". Bilingual text in English and Japanese. Outstanding book published in conjunction with a Japanese exhibition of Peter Cook and associates' radical architecture and design collective Archigram. Fantastic, award-winning book design, the book almost entirely illustrated in full-bleed full-color illustrations of items in the exhibition, the firm's offices, designs, and models, as well as partial half-size reproduction of all nine and a half issues of the collective's manifestos, bound consecutively into the book from front to back. The best book I've seen on Archigram, long out of print and scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, 1972. Hardback in dust jacket. 144pp. Publisher's bright orange cloth boards stamped in silver to spine. The slightest rubbing to board edges; spine ends a little bruised. A near fine copy. In a very good dust jacket with a design by Diana Jowsey. A few short tears and chips to edges; tape repair to reverse. Very minor loss to head of spine and corner tips. *** A book by and about Archigram, a group of experimental architects that put together a boadsheet under the name Archigram in 1961 and carried on their wild and far-reaching projects under that same mantle. Lavishly illustrated throughout.

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.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. owner name and small handwritten note on fep, 144 pages.

SOFTCOVER. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Large 8vo in colour printed stiff card covers, 169pp, colour plates, illustrations in text, etc. Dual text in English and German . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW unread and unmarked copy ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. CLEAN Very Good+ 1973 FIRST EDITION paper back.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American. Very Good solid hard cover First American Printing in a Good dust jacket missing many small pieces from the edges. This copy was owned by architectural historian Richard Guy Wilson and is signed by him on the endpaper. I found one pencil mark in the text; there may be a few more. A paperclip was clipped to page 7 and 15 at some point and has left them and some surrounding pages dented. #.

First Paperback Edition. Paperback Fine in fine acetate jacket and wraparound band. 4to., 115 pp. Original publishers illustrated covers. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Text in Japanese and English. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Archigram: Experimental Architecture 1961-1974", January 22 to March 27, 2005 in Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito. ISBN: 4894444194.'Condition: VG.

Softcover, first edition, 448 pages, about 14 x 12,5 cm. in English and German. Illustrated throughout in bl/wh and color. VG.

VG bright copy in publishers cloth in slightly creased dustjacket in chipped dustjacket with couple small closed tears. 1st American edition. ISBN 0289703026.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A superb copy of the catalogue based on the June-August 1994 exhibition at Paris's Center Georges Pompidou. Clean and Fine in a crisp, Near Fine to Fine dustjacket. Tall quarto, hundreds of illustrations (many in rich color) throughout.

Paper, stapled wrappers. Condition: Near fine in wraps. First Edition. 21 x 26cm near fine paperback. unpaginated (11 sheets folded and printed landscape forma) Illustrated, seed packet stapled to one sheet, two printed sheets laid-in. Includes "Archizones: A Survey", "Butterflies", "Plants", "Room of 1,000 Delights" and "Free Seed Offer".

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Printed folded yellow mailing envelope with staples holds a 44 + page unbound booklet; the condition of the yellow envelope is worn but intact; there are 2 minor tears along the fold line. as well as some overall edgewear; the booklet interior is in fine shape.

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".

Card Covers. First Edition, First Printing. An offering of two exceedingly rare issues by the profoundly consequential, avant-garde architectural collective known as Archigram. Formed in the 1960's in London, its members comprised of: Peter Cook, Warren Chalk, Ron Herron, Dennis Crompton, Michael Webb, David Greene, and "hidden hand" designer Theo Crosby. Archigram - a conglomeration of (Architecture+Telegram) - would go on to become one of the, "most seminal, iconoclastic and influential architectural groups of the modern age. They created some of the 20th century's most iconic images and projects, rethought the relationship of technology, society and architecture, predicted and envisioned the information revolution decades before it came to pass, and reinvented a whole mode of architectural education and therefore produced a seam of architectural thought with truly global impact." Intended as, "a free-form magazine [it] was designed to explore new projects and new thinking which were overturning the strict modernist dictates of the 1960s." [Source: Archigram Archival Project]. Detailed descriptions: Issue No. 8 housed in a "Popular Pak"; ('Milanogram/Milan Triennale/population growth). Yellow 'envelope' folder with pocket; 'cover' image on inside. Contents: eight pages 420mm x 150mm, folded; seventeen sheets, double sided, 210mm x 150mm, and one 300mm x 210mm. Not numbered or ordered, but punchcard codification down the edge of sheets. Sheets inserted in folder. Wallet taped shut and posted to readers. Priced at "5 shillings". || Issue No. 9 sometimes colloquially known as the "Seed Issue" with a "Free Seed Offer", 'Archi-zones' communications and landscapes. Comprising of eleven sheets measuring 400mm x 253mm, stapled on left and folded in half forming 22 'pages'. Various types, weights, colours of paper and range of one, two and three colour printing. Our offering is complete with the packet of 'Night Scented Stock' seeds, and stapled to page 11. /// Light rubbing, occasional chips/creasing along the edges of the packet housing the contents of Issue No. 8 otherwise, the issues remain in near fine condition. Rare in commerce.

London, Studio Vista 1972. 4°. 144 S. mit zahlr. Abb. Original Leinen. Original Schutzumschlag. Erste Ausgabe. Schutzumschlag am Rücken oben etwas beschädigt, sonst sehr gutes Exemplar. Very good in good unclipped dust jacket.

First Edition. 28 x 21cm. Paperback, 144pp. Inscribed by Ron Herron on title page. "In this book the gradual dissolve of the work from alternative cities through strange beasts such as 'suits that are homes' to notions of a consumer durable called 'Dreams Come True' is traced. The group's major build project, the Monte Carlo Entertainment Center is also extensively featured". A profusely illustrated survey of the psychedelic-era British architectural group's work and artistic ideas. Minor rubbing to head and foot of spine, internally good condition.

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. Dust Jacket Condition: Très bon. Edition originale.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Edition originale.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Edition originale.