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Jonathan Meades: Archigram’s Ghost, 21 May 2020

Archigram: The Book 
edited by Dennis Crompton.
Circa, 300 pp., £95, November 2018, 978 1 911422 04 4
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“... was an out-of-hours architectural band of six men – Peter Cook, Warren Chalk, Ron Herron, Dennis Crompton, Michael Webb and David Greene – whose day jobs were with big commercial practices and local authorities. They formed in the early 1960s and over the next decade or so produced thousands of designs for ‘cities of the future’ that were ...”

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Francis Gooding: Skateable Cities, 22 October 2026

“... Southbank Centre, were designed by a team including the architects Ron Herron, Warren Chalk and Dennis Crompton, later members of the avant-garde Archigram group. Their visionary sense of spaces and places in the future city was materialised in the brutalist concrete blocks, elevated platforms and mazy walkways of the Southbank Centre. The scheme also ...”

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