David Greene - Archigram Projects - Archigram Archival Project

The Six Members of Archigramare Peter Cook, David Greene, Mike Webb, Ron Herron, Warren Chalk and Dennis Crompton. Cook, Greene and Webb met in 1961, collaborated on the first Archigram magazine, later inviting Herron, Chalk and Crompton to join them, and the magazine name stuck to them as a group. Archigram projects are by named individuals and include other collaborators.

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Student final year thesis project at Nottingham College of Art & Design for a ferro-cement mosque in Baghdad, Iraq.

Fibreglass Project: Seaside Entertainments Bu...

Bournemouth Leisure Centre, or Leisure Factory. Speculative model-based exploration of the capabilities of fibreglass to produce new shapes, forms and spaces.

Spray Plastic House Project

Proposal for dwellings formed by excavating spaces from large polystyrene block, sprayed internally with fibreglass, and dismantling polystyrene.

Lincoln Civic Centre Competition

One of two competition submissions for Civic Centre competition run by Lincoln City Council.

Gas House Competition

Submission for competition for new types of house design, run by the Gas Council. Design of housing for single people, one of four first prize winners.

Berkshire County Offices Competition

Competition submission for the design of new offices for Berkshire County Council.

Harlow Housing Competition

Competition submission for houses and flats in Harlow, Essex for the Harlow Development Corporation.

Euston Station Redevelopment, London (Taylor ...

Redevelopment of Euston Station by Taylor Woodrow Construction. Platforms and freight handling areas completed, office development deferred.

Nottingham Shopping Centre Project

Proposal for a shopping centre in St Peter’s Gate, Nottingham, with ‘shared’ permanent shop and office buildings and ‘expendable’ mobile shop units serviced and removed by cranes and on-site railway.

Living City Exhibition, ICA Gallery, London

Exhibition of Archigram work, designed and curated by Archigram at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 19th June-2nd August 1963. Also exhibited at Manchester City Art Gallery and Walker Art Gallery, Cambridge.

Living City Articles: Living Arts Magazine

'Catalogue' of the Living City exhibition at the ICA, published as articles in issue 2 of Living Arts magazine.

Dream City Project

Speculative proposal for ‘city’ suspended on tension system: expanding to cover the earth or as Zeppelin war machine. Shown in Living City exhibition.

Fulham Study and Exhibition (Taylor Woodrow)

Feasibility study for redeveloping housing in Fulham, west London. Joint project with Taylor Woodrow and Ministry of Housing and Local Government.

Speculative design for ‘suspended machine for personal habitation’: ‘Stage one: Static type field control unit’.

Speculative proposal for a sculpted and mechanised “trailer home” which can exist independently or be plugged into larger structures.

Article in Perspecta, Yale

‘Amazing Archigram: A Supplement’ in the Yale School of Architecture journal Perspecta, vol. 11, 1967, pp.131-154.

Archigram Magazine Issue No. 1

Project No: 100.1

First Archigram magazine. Two sheets of paper of different sizes stapled together, containing text and collage of projects. Black and white with red potato print dot. Print run of around 400. Price sixpence. Video available in Magazines section.

Archigram Magazine Issue No. 2

Project No: 100.2

Second Archigram magazine. Seven pages of one size, one double-sized and folded. Stapled and professionally printed editorials and projects; front cover designed by Peter Taylor. Price one shilling and sixpence. Video available in Magazines section.

Archigram Magazine Issue No. 3

Project No: 100.3

Third Archigram magazine: ‘Expendability: Towards Throwaway Architecture’. Seven equally-sized pages of yellow paper, stapled. Professionally printed. Price one shilling. Video available in Magazines section.

Archigram Magazine Issue No. 4

Project No: 100.4

Fourth Archigram magazine ‘Amazing Archigram / Zoom’; science fiction/science fact theme. Silkscreened cover design by Warren Chalk. Coloured “pop up” section. Price two shillings. Video available in Magazines section.

Archigram Magazine Issue No. 5

Project No: 100.5

Fifth Archigram magazine, ‘Metropolis’ city theme. 22 pages, two fold outs. Cover design by Rae and Ben Fether. Price two shillings. Print run 1250. Video available in Magazines section.

Archigram Magazine Issue No. 6

Project No: 100.6

Sixth Archigram magazine. Reversible magazine with two fronts: one 1960s themed, the other 1940s themed. Cover designs by Geoff Reeve. Video available in Magazines section.

Archigram Magazine Issue No. 7

Project No: 100.7

Seventh Archigram magazine. ‘Beyond Architecture’. Seventeen loose sheets and an electronic resistor in a clear plastic bag. Includes two sheets of ‘cut-outs’ and three editorials. Unpriced. Video available in Magazines section.

Archigram Magazine Issue No. 8

Project No: 100.8

Eighth Archigram magazine, ‘Popular Pak’, population theme, designed to coincide with Milan Triennale. Sixteen loose double sided sheets in yellow envelope with punchcard sorting system. Video available in Magazines section.

Archigram Magazine Issue No. 9

Project No: 100.9

Ninth Archigram magazine ‘Fruitiest yet’, green or seed issue, landscape theme. Eleven double sided coloured paper pages, stapled and folded. Packet of Night Scented Stock seeds included. Video available in Magazines section.

Archigram Magazine Issue No. 9½

Project No: 100.95

'Archigram Nine and a Half'. An update on Archigram projects under way during the busy period of the Archigram office rather than a ‘full’ Archigram magazine. Two pages, different sizes, black and white, unpriced. Video in Magazines section.

Living Pod - Net Structure

Project No: 105

Speculative proposal for a high-rise stacking structure for Living Pod components.

Milanogram (Triennale)

Project No: 107

Exhibition design for ‘The Greater Number Problem’ in the international section of the Milan Triennale featuring many Archigram projects, Robot and Audio Chair.

Mansfield Working Men's Club

Project No: 126

Design for a pre-fabricated £20,000 clubhouse for a Working Men’s Club in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.

LogPlug & RokPlug

Project No: 131

Speculative design for service sockets for mobile and temporary living in landscape settings. Includes Tree-Plug. A project in the pro-landscape and anti-architecture L.A.W.u.N. series (Locally Available World unseen Networks)

Batiment Public, Monte Carlo

Project No: 134

Unrealised project for an entertainments building and public park in Monte Carlo, Monaco, with further temporary amenities. Three stages: successful competition bid; technical assessment stage; working drawings.

Project No: 138

Speculative study and development of items carried by nomadic human beings. Part of the Invisible University, L.A.W.u.N., and Electronic Aborigine overlapping series of projects; also linked to Cushicle.

Project No: 139

Speculative proposal for replacement of architecture by series of small mobile robots allowing free use of amenities in the landscape in L.A.W.u.N. (Locally Available World unseen Network) anti-building and pro-landscape series.

Electronic Tomato

Project No: 140

Speculative proposal for mobile sensory stimulation device.

Cheer Up It's Archigram! (ICA Exhibition)

Project No: 156

Detailed and implemented design of an exhibition on Archigram at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Nash House, The Mall, London SW1.

Project No: 173

The Archigram Archival Project does not yet hold any textual information on this project.

Archigram Opera

Project No: 175

Multi-screen audio-visual presentation developed to show slides, movies and soundtracks. First shown at Centre Pompidou and later adapted for different environments and changing technologies. An online version can be viewed in the Shows section.

Searching for a Perfect Location

Project No: 201

Attempting architectural suicide through a photocopier.

Vienna Exhibition: Archigram Experimental Arc...

Project No: 212

Installation design for the exhibition Archigram: Experimental Architecture 1961-1974 at the Kunsthalle, Vienna.

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