Editing Archigram (section)

===Mid-'60s===

According to Jencks, Archigram's "extraordinary inventiveness" and delirious, Pop sci-fi imagery attracted international media attention throughout 1963–65. The group designed cities "that looked like computers and molehills, that crawled on the shoots of a telescope like [[Eduardo Paolozzi]]'s Bug-Eyed Monsters, that bobbed under the sea like so many skewered balloons, that sprouted&mdash;swock!&mdash;out of the sea like a Tom Wolfian, hydraulic umbrella, that zoomed down from the clouds flashing 'Destroy-Man! Kill-All-Humans,' a space-comic-robot-zaap, that clicked into place along pneumatic tubes, a plug-in plastic layer cake, that gurgled and spluttered over the old city like creeping, cancerous, testubular, friendly [[Daleks]]."<ref>Charles Jencks, ''Modern Movements in Architecture'', Anchor Books, 1973, p.290-91</ref>

"The strength of Archigram's appeal," wrote the architecture critic and historian [[Reyner Banham]], "stems from many things, including youthful enthusiasm in a field (city planning) which is increasingly the preserve of middle-aged caution. But chiefly it offers an image-starved world a new vision of the city of the future, a city of components on racks, components in stacks, components plugged into networks and grids, a city of components being swung into place by cranes."<ref>Charles Jencks, ''Modern Movements in Architecture'', Anchor Books, 1973, p.291</ref>