New York-based Distributed Art Publishers and Designers & Books have partnered with Archigram magazine and designer Miko McGinty to create remakes of all ten issues of the 1960s counter-culture architecture magazine for the first time.
The ten fully reprinted issues will come in a clamshell box, along with a “reader’s guide” with additional essays and archival material, including tributes by architects such as Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Bjarke Ingels and theorist Beatriz Colomnia.
Distributed Art Publishers (DAP) worked with co-publisher Designer & Books, book designer Miko McGinty and Archigram to “faithfully” reproduce the often-complicated layout of Archigram issues, which contained elements such as pop-ups and gatefolds that could vary copy to copy.
“Perhaps DAP’s most ambitious publishing project to date, this has been a labor of love conducted over the past two years,” said DAP.
“All the original surprises and idiosyncrasies are faithfully reproduced: flyers, pockets, a pop-up centerfold, 8 posters, 5 gatefolds and an electronic resistor, printed on 12 different paper stocks and housed in a large-format clamshell box. This is the first ever authorized facsimile of all ten issues.”
Founded in London in 1961, Archigram encompassed a collective of designers and the print magazine of the same name focused on disseminating and exploring ideas in architecture, largely informed by the work of architect Buckminster Fuller, Antonio Sant’Elia and Yona Friedman.
The magazine and collective asserted an experimental, futurist and high-tech slant, all under a sci-fi meets pop-art design identity. It also appealed to an international design audience, including groups such as the Metabolists in Japan and the Viennese Haus-Rucker-Co.
The magazine ran from its launch in 1961 to 1974.
The group and publication consisted of founding members architects Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Ron Herron, David Greene, Michael Webb and Dennis Crompton, who recently passed away in January 2025.
Crompton, who curated the Archigram Archives until his passing, served as a “point-person” over the past two years to bring the facsimile to print, contributing elements such as technical details, high-resolution scans of each issue and guidance.
According to the DAP, original copies of the magazine are rare.
Beyond Archigram, the team accessed copies for research through organisations such as Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University and Hong Kong’s M+ museum, which acquired the complete Archigram archive in 2019.
To help offset the costs of the project, a Kickstarter campaign will go live on February 19.
According to the team, the box set will be available for purchase in Fall 2025.
Associate member of Archigram Colin Fournier also recently passed away, following co-founders Chalk in 1988 and Herron in 1994.
In 2020, Dezeen explored architectural concepts found in the magazine through a video series for VDF.
The images are courtesy of Distributed Art Publishers
