ABSTRACT
The 1970s should have been a fulfilment of the 1960s. And they were, but not in a manner one might have expected. The creativity of Archigram found LWVIUXLWLRQLQDFRPSHWLWLRQZLQ²¶)HDWXUHV0RQWH&DUOR· – but their energies seemed to evaporate the moment some of the group established a practice and found their victory had been taken away from them by a competing American practice. That was to be the story RIWKHVDQG¶·VFRQWLQXLQJ$PHULFDQLQIOXHQFHV arriving as an energetic import and filling an ideological vacuum on the British scene. However, whereas those influences in the immediate post-war period had been in the form of Mies, SOM and even Paul Rudolph’s brand of Modernism, they were to be quite different for a subsequent generation.
