A Section of the Japanese theme pavilion is being design by the ARCHIGRAM GROUP, both in London and L.A. [Osaka] is an exhibit to illustrate future urban developments at the scale of both individual and community. The location is the entrance to the International section of the Life pavilion at the upper (Future) level. This work is co-ordinated in Japan by Architect Noraki Kurokawa in the first instance and by a visiting member of our Group for the completion in March 1970.

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Our exhibit for Osaka is basically a corridor, through which thousands of people an hour will pass. The message has to be simple. The audience participation is a 'yes' or 'no' push-button response to five simple questions about 'Cities'. The form of the thing is that a curious 'growth' object hanging from the ceiling changes from formal to informal, structured to free, mechanistic to symbiotic as you move through the corridor. We hope that this will be a simple thing to understand (in any language), but that the implication of the questions might linger.

Archigram
A Guide to Archigram 1961-1974, ed. Archigram (London: Academy Editions, 1994)