In this study of Archigram magazine, a magazine published by the architectural group based at the Architectural Association in London, UK, that was "one of the foremost manifestations of the
postwar neo-avant-garde," Sterner (architecture and planning, State U. of New York at Buffalo) is principally concerned with the representation and dissemination of architectural ideas. He
focuses on how ideas went from the pages of the magazine and developed and manifested in later years. The particular ideas he traces are: infrastructure-ready service cores; the turn away from
rigid materials toward the potentials of the inflatable skin; and the strategies the Archigram group used to combine segregated units into dynamic, reflexive, social settings. Annotation 穢2009
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