Architecture firm, England Archigram is both a group of British architects and their architectural periodical, which gave the group its name. Between 1960 and 1972, Archigram published nine issues of the periodical, staged exhibitions and conferences, and devised a number of influential architectural projects. Founded by Peter Cook (1936-), the group consisted of Cook, David Greene (1937-), Mike Webb (1937-), Warren Chalk (1927–88), Dennis Crompton (1935-), and Ron Herron (1930–94). Their avantgarde architecture rejected heroic modernism in favor of expendable, variable, and often mobile combinations of component units plugged into superstructures. Although Archigram gained worldwide recognition, their Utopian project owed much to the intense architectural debate fermented by the massive rebuilding projects of postwar Britain. The group drew on eclectic sources, including R.Buckminster Fuller, the Independent Group, Reyner Banham, comic books, science fiction, consumer imagery, and con...