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Cities: Moving, Master Vehicle-Habitation Project, Aerial Perspective
Ron Herron British
Not on view
Ron Herron, a founding member of Archigram, an influential British group known for its admixture of architecture, science fiction, and pop culture, created his Walking City out of an indefinite number of giant roaming pods containing urban and residential areas. The pods could be connected by retractable corridors and, together, form a conglomerate metropolis. This mobile and indeterminate architecture was not so much a serious proposition for a structure as a commentary on the way in which change dominates every aspect of the modern city. Sottsass referenced the project by reproducing it in his drawing of postapocalyptic ruins of our future civilization in the Planet as Festival series.
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