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Archigram
Anybody remember the old Prince tune, “Pop Life”? You know, the one with the lyric “Tell me, whats that underneath your hair? Is there anybody living there?” In the wonderful world of Archigram, the radical English architecture group that got together in the early Sixties to produce a magazine and change the world of the dreamt environment as we know it, a building sitting underneath someone’s hair seems like a highly plausible invention. With a name fusing two hot topics of their day (ARCHItecture and the teleGRAM), original members including Peter Cook, David Greene, and Ron Heron brought their vision of the future – inhabited by Walking Cities, Living Pods and Plug-In architecture – to the streets. Still going strong, this workshop sees the group create a “distributed university” in St James’s Park together with critics and students. Hair or no hair, it’s bound to be a very Pop Life indeed.