Join editors, designers, publishers, and curators working at the intersection of architecture and print to discuss the enduring influence of Archigram, one of the most formally inventive, conceptually daring, and historically consequential small-press magazines of the 1960s.
Founded in 1961 by six young British architects, Archigram was a clarion call for a new generation to embrace experimental technologies and paradigms for living. Unique in architectural publishing, the magazine represents a fertile collision of architectural and print aesthetics. Archigram stood for fecundity of imagination, riotousness, hilarity, debate, provocation, and hopefulness. As such, it remains a trove of inspiration, for students not only of architecture, but also of art and design.
This conversation accompanies the exhibition “Archigram: Making a Facsimile,” on view in The Cooper Union’s Third Floor Hallway Gallery from October 14 to November 6 and is organized in partnership with D.A.P., copublisher (with Designers & Books) of Archigram: The Magazine, the first-ever full facsimile of this often cited but rarely seen publication.
Panel participants include:
Diana Darling, CEO and Creative Director of The Architect’s Newspaper.
Thomas Evans, Editorial Director at Artbook | D.A.P.
Evangelos Kotsioris, Assistant Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Kotsioris curated the current MoMA exhibition The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower.
Julia Ma, designer at Miko McGinty, Inc. in Brooklyn. Her recent projects include Sheila Hicks: Radical Vertical Inquiries and Transform: Promising Places, Second Chances, and the Architecture of Transformational Change.
Miko McGinty, principal of Miko McGinty, Inc. McGinty began designing art books in 1993, and her studio of four designers has created publications for numerous artists and more than forty museums worldwide. She teaches in the architecture department at MIT.
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Open to the general public.
Held in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium of The Cooper Union
This event is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
