CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/28/2025

Phenomenal facsimile in 'Archigram: The Magazine'

“It was a weird little thing: but in its hairiness was a certain intensity…” So writes original Archigram member Peter Cook in the readers’ guide to Archigram: The Magazine, launching in New York on Tuesday, October 28, at The Cooper Union. A two-year labor of love and an unprecedented feat of facsimile publishing, this 10-volume boxed set is the subject not just of a panel discussion starring editor Thomas Evans, designers Julia Ma and Miko McGinty and esteemed architecture and design authorities Diana Darling and Evangelos Kotsioris, but also an extremely thoughtful and intricate exhibition of ephemera and production materials related to its 2025 reincarnation put on by The Cooper Union’s graduate architecture department. “What needs to be remembered is the state of the architectural culture at the magazine’s point of origin: busy, self-satisfied and already falling prey to commercialism,” Cook concludes his essay. “In the middle to later period of its life, it was already coming under the critical atmosphere (led by the United States) of abstracted philosophy and detachment from the physicality of architecture on the part of influential architect-academics. In the early 2000s many young architects were openly envious of the inventiveness and jollity of the work. As we now reach another point, at which a PHYSICAL facsimile of the magazine becomes relevant, the cultural and intellectual mood is that of meekness, apology and a seriously narrow formal vocabulary. But as an inveterate Archigrammer, I know that this will pass, and that somewhere (maybe in a funny place) a group of characters will be using the facsimile as a reminder to DO SOMETHING…”