Plug-in City: Maximum Pressure Area, project (Section)
Peter Cook
British, born 1936
1964
An ambitious, colorized ink-and-gouache architectural section proposing “Plug-In City”—a modular industrial framework into which prefabricated living and service units could be plugged and endlessly rearranged.
You first notice a hectic, diagrammatic panorama of scaffolding, funnels, diagonal red ramps and bright geometric pods, rendered like a playful circuit board that compresses vertical infrastructure and city life into a machine-like spectacle.
Made within the Archigram milieu, this 1964 project crystallizes the era’s utopian faith in mobility, modularity, and consumer-driven urbanism and helped inspire later high‑tech and megastructure approaches to architecture.
Medium
Ink and gouache on photomechanical print
Dimensions
32 7/8 x 57 11/16" (83.5 x 146.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation
Accession
1186.2000
Palette
Art Terms
Exhibitions
