리틀 매거진 아키그램의 표현적, 형식적 특징

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to understand the expressive and formal characteristics of the little magazine Archigram issued between 1961 and 1974. Archigram was the most well-known architectural little magazine that emerged after World War II. Although architectural projects of the architect group Archigram have been studied and discussed a lot, not much research has been done on their magazine itself, which was a medium that delivered their architecture to the public. The method of this study is to analyze the way Archigram’s architectural projects which showed experimental architecture ranging from urban megastructures to temporary structures surrounding the human body are expressed in their magazines, and to analyze the editorial characteristics of Archigram magazine including paper, printing, ink color, and binding, etc. Archigram was greatly influenced by the visual arts of open aesthetics in which the audience participated in the interpretation and formation of the artwork, and this aesthetic was a great feature not only in Archigram’s architecture but also in Archigram magazines. One of the big characteristics of the expression of the Archigram magazine was collage. Archigram magazine, edited as a collage, allowed readers to interpret Archigram's architecture in a variety of ways, rather than the fixed perspective intended by the editor. The cartoon expression was another feature of the Archigram magazine. Archigram expressed the changing urban and architectural landscape through the expression method of cartoons. The characteristic of the Archigram magazine in its editing and composition was informality. Archigram magazines were produced using various communication methods, such as science fiction comics, LP records, or paper models or letters, and edited in a hand-crafted way, not in a fixed format or repetitive process. These expressive and editorial characteristics of Archigram’s magazines were that they brought readers to experience Archigram’s architecture in new ways and attracted public to their architectural aesthetics of the new technology.