On drawing techniques, Sin Centre, new and old technologies, America and the golden years.
Tim Abrahamas, (architecture writer and former CCA fellow) did a long interview to Michael Webb, of Archigram fame.
“It was an exciting period full of experimentation, bright colours, casual sex; it was the spirit of that period. That was put into those drawings – particularly those by Ron, Peter and to an extent Denis. It wasn’t really about showing new architecture it was about showing the building is in itself fun and exciting and is perhaps merely a backdrop to what is going on. The big thing is the fun times and the architecture that merely enables it but doesn’t determine it. The view of architecture prior to that was that you live according to the dictates of the building you are in. You are inventing a life and the architecture allows you to do it.”
Full text on Cosmopolitan Scum.
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