Two Issues of Archigram (No's. 8, and 9)

No. 8, the "Popular Pak" issue (with "Milanogram" material for the Milan Triennale on the theme of population growth): yellow envelope folder with pocket, the cover image printed on the inside, containing eight folded pages (16.5" x 6"), seventeen double-sided sheets (8.25" x 6") and one larger sheet (11.75" x 8.25"). The sheets are unnumbered and unordered, with punch-card coding down their edges, and were inserted in the folder, which was taped shut and posted to readers. Priced at 5 shillings. No. 9, the "Seed Issue" (with a "Free Seed Offer" and the "Archi-zones" of communications and landscapes): eleven sheets (15.75" x 10"), stapled at the left edge and folded once to form twenty-two "pages", printed in one, two and three colours on papers of varying type, weight and colour. Complete with the packet of Night Scented Stock seeds stapled to page 11. Light rubbing, with occasional chipping and creasing to the edges of the envelope housing No. 8, else near fine. Rare in commerce. The magazine of Archigram, the avant-garde architectural group formed in London in 1960, whose name joins "architecture" and "telegram". Its members were Peter Cook, Warren Chalk, Ron Herron, Dennis Crompton, Michael Webb and David Greene, with the designer Theo Crosby as the "hidden hand" behind the group. The Archigram Archival Project describes them as "amongst the most seminal, iconoclastic and influential architectural groups of the modern age". Their projects rethought the relationship between technology, society and architecture and anticipated the information revolution, and the magazine was conceived as a free-form vehicle for new work and ideas that challenged the modernist orthodoxy of the 1960s.…