CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/29/2025

The Cooper Union presents 'Archigram' discussion, 'Plug In, Fold Out, Pop Up: Publishing as Architecture'

Tuesday, October 28, from 6:30–8:30 PM, please join us at The Cooper Union for a panel discussion on the enduring influence of Archigram. Thomas Evans, editor of our new facsimile edition, Archigram: The Magazine, and designers Julia Ma and Miko McGinty, will be joined by Diana Darling, CEO and Creative Director of The Architect’s Newspaper, and Evangelos Kotsioris, MoMA Assistant Curator of Architecture and Design, to discuss this formally inventive, conceptually daring and historically consequential small-press magazine. Moderated by James Lowder, Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at The Cooper Union.⁠

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Founded in 1961 by six young British architects, Archigram was a clarion call for a new generation to embrace experimental technologies and paradigms for living. Unique in architectural publishing, their magazine represents a fertile collision of architectural and print aesthetics. Archigram stood for fecundity of imagination, riotousness, hilarity, debate, provocation, and hopefulness. As such, it remains a trove of inspiration, for students not only of architecture, but also of art and design.

This conversation accompanies the exhibition Archigram: Making a Facsimile, on view in The Cooper Union’s Third Floor Hallway Gallery from October 14 to November 6, 2025.

PANEL PARTICIPANTS

Diana Darling, CEO and Creative Director of The Architect’s Newspaper.

Thomas Evans, Editorial Director at Artbook | D.A.P.

Evangelos Kotsioris, Assistant Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Kotsioris curated the current MoMA exhibition The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower.

Julia Ma, designer at Miko McGinty, Inc. in Brooklyn. Her recent projects include Sheila Hicks: Radical Vertical Inquiries and Transform: Promising Places, Second Chances, and the Architecture of Transformational Change.

Miko McGinty, principal of Miko McGinty, Inc. McGinty began designing art books in 1993, and her studio of four designers has created publications for numerous artists and more than forty museums worldwide. She teaches in the architecture department at MIT.

Exhibition Talk | Plug In, Fold Out, Pop Up: Publishing as Architecture
Tuesday, October 28, 6:30–8:30 PM
The Cooper Union
Frederick P. Rose Auditorium
41 Cooper Square on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets
New York, NY 10003
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Open to the general public.
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