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after 1945
Smithdon Secondary
School, Hunstanton,
Norfolk, 1949-52
Their approach
becomes known as
the
New Brutalism
This conception
of the city is in
opposition to
New
Monumentality
as well (as it was
manifest in
Brasilia and
Chandigarh )
Systems Theory
Megastructures
Kisho Kurokawa,
Capsule Exhibition,
Expo, 1970
Kisho
Kurokawa,
Prefabricated
Apartment
House, 1962
+ gangyo layout
of stones in
Japanese
garden
Archigram
unashamedly utopian
and apocalyptic in
imagery
Founded by Peter
Cook in 1961
Internationally
distributed broadsheet
consolidated the
international image of
the Megastructural
movement
Sources for projects
like Plug-in City
(1964): space comics,
popular sci-fi, Pop Art,
technology of oil
refineries and
underwater research,
ready-made and
popular images
Deliberate assault on
the conventions of
the discipline of
architecture, invasion
of low art into
architecture
Irony at work;
representation key
obsessive detail,
eclecticism of
imagery, external
views all
reminiscent of
SantElias Citta
Nuova
Top to bottom:
Nottingham
Shopping Viaduct;
City Within Existing
Technology;
Europa;
Housing for Charing
Cross Road;
Plug-in City
Its a, 1972
Oasis, 1968
Homo Ludens
New Babylon
All Megastructure
imagine the city as an
open web or network, the
contents of which develop
according to an internal
dynamic,
Indivisible, organic, selfregulating
Problems arise when this
is given architectural
form in image becomes
quickly utopian or
dystopian