Drop City Revisited Sadler, Simon
Journal of architectural education (1984),
20/2/1/, Volume:
59, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
The structural, formal, and social eccentricity of the Drop City artists' commune in Colorado defied conventional definition as architecture, but rendered it a singular motif in accounts of ...experimental architecture, and made it a countercultural domicile without peer. Drop City's architectural innovations included a "bricolage" interpretation of Richard Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes, a geometric structural system known as the Zome, and passive solar devices. Before it became a spectacle of degeneration, Drop City was posited as a creative laboratory for cultural and environmental "praxis," and it remains a case study of altered architectural parameters.
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Archigram, the British architectural group that became arguably the pre-eminent architectural
neoavant-garde of the 1960s and early 1970s, is usually remembered for its visions of a
‘Pop’ and ...‘science fiction’ architecture. This article, however,
recalls Archigram's relationship to architectural education. If this at first seems
surprising, or even mundane, it has to be pointed out that to a great extent Archigram came out of,
and was sustained by, the schools of architecture. Moreover, Archigram was nourished by a high
ideal of what education, and architectural education in particular, should be about: the
cultivation of individuals working in concert, without hierarchy, and free of social, spatial,
or ideological institutions. This programme was apparent in many Archigram design projects –
the title for this article is for instance borrowed from a piece by Archigram's David
Greene 1 – and it is just as palpable in the more proactive role that Archigram took
in trying to reform architectural education.
When buyers of an Apple computer product unwrap their purchase, they are met met by legend Designed by Apple in California. Why, within the minimal packaging of the product, is this epithet so ...central?
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