Oh Architectural Bondage, Up Yours!
As usual, I spent a lot of time in museums this trip. I made pilgrimages to the Tate Britain, the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, and most memorably, the Vivienne Westwood exhibition at the V&A, and the wonderfully goofy, pop-inspired architectural creations of the 1960's design group, ARCHIGRAM at the always brilliant Design Museum.
For the uninitiated, Vivienne designed much of the groundbreaking original couture sold by punk empresario, Malcolm McLaren, at London's notorious bondage boutique, Sex.
As for the ARCHIGRAM group, you can read their story in cartoon form here.
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some of the archigram people came here last year to teach some course at one of the universities. in conjunction with this the fine arts museum put on a show of their work. totally fascinating. i was surprised i'd never heard of them before. after seeing the show i came across a site in sweden(i think) that was selling something that looked exactly like what archigram had designed years before. no mention of archigram though, so i'm not sure if it was coincidence a direct rip off or what.
Posted by: william | June 9, 2004 12:42 AM
I'd never heard of ARCHIGRAM before seeing this show, and I really liked how totally impractical and downright silly most of their designs were. Their work seems to have a strong link with Roger Dean as well.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | June 9, 2004 4:29 AM