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page017from Building Ideas4 Piano & Rogers – Pompidou Centre,Paris, 1971-77. (Jonathan Hale) well publicized projects. By the timeRogers’ practice, Team 4, (with Su Rogers and Wendy Foster) was established inthe late 1960s the Archigram group had set out what was to become a series ofuncannily prescient models for a high-technology, open-ended architecture ofinfrastructure, to be imitated and also partly realized by a variety of otherarchitects over the subsequent years. Among the most notable were Michael Webb’sdesign for the Furniture Manufacturers Association Headquarters of 1958 withits expressive clustering of circulation and service towers; Cedric Price’s FunPalace of 1961-64 with its throwaway collection of pods and escalators under amembrane roof; and Warren Chalk’s Capsule Tower of 1964 with its crane-toppedcentral mast supporting a vast array of anonymous living “containers”.
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