The Aerocar
Walking City
Ron Herron
Ron Herron's Walking City is one of a series of projects created by Archigram in the
early Sixties. All of the projects illustrated a modular approach to building
buildings or cities, in which each individual unit was an
interchangeable pod.
Image Credit: Archigram edt Peter Cook et al, Praeger Press, 1973
Archigram's project play fast and loose with conventional ideas about buildings and urbanism. Not as dour as either Paul Rudolph or Moshe Safdie, their astute observations about the effects of mass production are still timely, even if their exuberant aesthetic is not.