Architects and Their 1960s Dreams

Archigram, a renowned British Architectural group believed that modern technology would bring about a new era in building design. Big dreams they had, coming out with inventive sketches and articulate essays but no clients dared to commission them. The world simply wasn’t ready for their ideas. Later in the 1990s, the world had become a totally different place with great technologies, which some people would never imagined back then. It is only with recent advances in computer science and technology that many of these ideas and structures became relatively possible. Subsequently, architects and engineers began to harness the powerful software to achieve their somewhat ‘impossible’ attempts, which brought architecture to a whole new level, a quantum leap to the unknown. This is when the quotes ‘Imagination creates reality’ and ‘Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real' comes into the picture.

Peter Cook and Colin Fourniew,who are the former Archigram colleagues, who once foresee the future in architecture with technologies, can now fulfill their boyhood ambitions and build their dreams. It was a chance to accomplish their mission, by making good on the promises sketched out all those years ago in order to recapture their 1960s dreams.