CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/18/2025

Say yes to utopia! Last day to support 'Archigram: The Magazine' facsimile

“A new generation of architecture must arise—with forms and spaces which seem to reject the precepts of ‘Modern.’” Pictured here, the single typed and hand-diagrammed interior page of Archigram issue 1, May 1961 (folded and wrapped cover not shown.) According to Helen Castle, Director of Publishing and Learning Content at RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects), this issue, produced in an edition of just 400 copies, was printed off a copy machine across from the office where Archigram founders Peter Cook and David Green were working in 1961. Famously, a piece of a potato was used to print the red dot. While our forthcoming facsimile edition will not call for cutting up potatoes to print color on issue 1, it will faithfully reproduce all 9.5 original editions of the magazine in all its cooky, experimental, manifesto-positive glory according to the standards of the remaining members of the collective—including Peter Cook and Dennis Crompton, who helped enormously with the production of this and every other issue before his death in January 2025.
Our Kickstarter campaign to bring Archigram back to life comes to an end tonight, Wednesday, March 19, at 6 PM. Thanks so much to all who have contributed so far. And to those who would still like to join, we welcome you to our publishing adventure!