A study for Aftenpostle (Newspaper) and the Oslo Architectfornung (Architectural Association), shown at the Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. The exhibit demonstrated the possibilities of the extension of world communication systems into a domestic situation to give a use of information and entertainment expanded onto an environmental scale. This is a pilot study for the Instant City Study.

Archigram


As the Instant City study developed, certain items emerged in particular. First, the idea of a 'soft-scene monitor' - a combination of teaching-machine, audio-visual juke box, environmental simulator, and from a theoretical point of view, a realization of the 'Hardware/Software' debate.

Archigram
Archigram, Edited by Peter Cook, Warren Chalk, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron & Mike Webb, 1972 [reprinted New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999].