Plug-In City, project (Axonometric)
Peter Cook
British, born 1936
1964
A lively axonometric collage by Peter Cook that imagines Plug‑In City as a modular, replaceable metropolis, rendered in cut-and-pasted printed papers with graphite, ink, and colored self-adhesive polymer sheets on gray board.
You’re struck by a crowded, aerial tangle of prefab blocks, bright red cylindrical towers and scaffolding-like green struts floating on a flat gray field, like a technical diagram turned carnival of machines.
A key artifact of the 1960s Archigram avant-garde, it helped popularize ideas of plug-in modularity, mobility and flexible megastructures that challenged traditional urban planning and still inform speculative and experimental architecture.
Medium
Cut-and-pasted printed papers with graphite and clear and colored self-adhesive polymer sheets on gray paper-covered board with ink
Dimensions
27 3/8 x 29 7/8" (69.5 X 75.9 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation
Accession
1184.2000
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