‘A Walking City’ — Archigram and Ron Herron - Medium
May 17, 2018 · Ron Herron’s A Walking City was originally set in a dystopian New York, the giant robots would walk over water and land to wherever they were required, connecting with others to create one...
064-Walking City - archigram.net
Walking City imagines a future in which borders and boundaries are abandoned in favour of a nomadic lifestyle among groups of people worldwide. Inspired by NASA's towering, mobile launch pads, hovercraft, and science fiction comics, Archigram envisioned parties of itinerant buildings that travel on land and sea.
Archigram Walking City - Home
The main image is a sketch of Archigram's "Walking Cities" in front of the New York City skyline from the Walking City Project. It shows multiple walking cities attached to one another while parked in Long Island Sound. The picture also shows a boat in the sound moving between the connected cities.
A Walking City for the 21st Century - ArchDaily
Nov 3, 2013 · Ron Herron's Walking City is one of the more recognizable Archigram designs from the 1960s, and has been influential to architectural theory ever since. However, the design for the "Very...
Archigram - Wikipedia
The Walking City is constituted by intelligent buildings or robots in the form of giant, self-contained living pods designed to roam freely.
Ron Herron. Walking City on the Ocean, project (Exterior ... - MoMA
Ron Herron, a founding member of Archigram, the influential British group known for its admixture of science-fiction and pop culture, created his Walking City out of an indefinite number of giant roaming pods containing different urban and residential areas.
Walking City: Archigram and the Pursuit of Style - Academia.edu
As an image of the postindustrial present, classic Archigram projects such as Walking City (1964) were as distinct from the modernism of the previous decade as The Grateful Dead’s Aoxomoxoa was from Elvis Presley’s eponymous album cover. Instead of serious, brutalist and monumental, Archigram’s style was light, colorful, fantastic and hedonistic.
Walking City, from Archigram – The Seasteading Institute
Mar 14, 2011 · The Walking City was an idea proposed by British architect Ron Herron in 1964. In an article in the avant-garde architecture journal Archigram, Ron Herron proposed building massive, artificially intelligent mobile robotic structures that could freely roam a post-apocalyptic world, moving to wherever the structures’ resources or manufacturing ...
AD Classics: The Plug-In City / Peter Cook, Archigram
Jul 10, 2013 · Between 1960 and 1974 Archigram created over 900 drawings, among them the plan for the “Plug-in City” by Peter Cook. This provocative project suggests a hypothetical fantasy city, containing...
Imagining Megastructures: How Utopia Can Shape Our ... - ArchDaily
Aug 11, 2016 · When Archigram designed the first walking city in the 1960s, it was also a pure utopia. The architectural group dreamed of a technologically-advanced society, where buildings would walk on...