About:

Michael Webb, currently a visiting professor at SAUDLA, was one of the London architects along with Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, and Ron Herron who in 1961 founded ARCHIGRAM, the avant garde architectural firm active in the 1960s and early 1970s. The firm also published a self-titled magazine featuring their experimental work. Webb's drawings have been displayed at many museums including MOMA, MOMA San Francisco, and the Pompidou Centre in Paris . Webb has taught at Columbia, Pratt, and the University of Buffalo and is also the author of a dozen or so books and numerous journal articles on architecture.
 

Books:

Archigram.   New York: Praeger, 1973.  NA680 .A68.

Asensio Cerver, Francisco. Text by Michael Webb. The architecture of skyscrapers.  Watson-Guptill Publications, 1997. Arch. Ref. NA6230 .A84 1997.

______________________. Text by Michael Webb.  Redesigning city squares and plazas. Watson-Guptill Publications, 1997. NA9070 .A84 1997.

Webb, Michael. Architects house themselves: breaking new ground. National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1994.  NA7208 .W4 1994.

____________.  The city square: A historical evolution.  Whitney, 1990.  On Order.

____________. Themes and variations: Ray Kappe : architects, planners. Images Pub. Group, 1998.  NA737.K355 W43 1998.
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Books listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.
 

Articles (Selected from 1981- 2005):

"Monument for a miniaturist: art museum, Berne, Switzerland." Webb, Michael,  Architectural review, vol.218, no.1302, pp.[30]-[39], Aug 2005

Tradition stood on end: house studio - architect, Shigeru Ban. Webb, Michael.  Architectural review, vol.217, no.1296, pp.82-85, Feb 2005.

"Cultural hub: library and concert hall, Espoo, Finland." Webb, Michael. Architectural review, vol.216, no.1290, pp.[46]-[51], Aug 2004.

"An animated affair [Walt Disney Concert Hall]." Webb, Michael.  Architecture, vol.92, no.10, pp.66-[71], Oct 2003.

"Feeling their age [Archigram lecture, London]." Long, Kieran.  World architecture, no.112, pp.23, Jan 2003.

    Note:  Report on the Royal Gold Medal lecture given by the surviving members of 1960s architectural collective Archigram: Peter Cook, David Greene, Dennis Crompton, and Mike Webb. (Avery Online)

"An architecture of landscape and light in the Arizona desert." Webb, Michael.  A + U: architecture and urbanism, no.7(382), pp.[24]-33, July 2002.

"Conference stall: an Alvar Aalto conference room is in jeopardy in New York." Webb, Michael. Interiors, vol.159, no.12, pp.69-70, Dec 2000.

"Toyo Ito: Mediatheque." Webb, Michael.  A + U: architecture and urbanism, no.2(353), pp.[62]-73, Feb 2000.

"Unbuilt to last: an MIT computer graphics team is saving structures that never existed in the first place."  Loring, Karla. Metropolis, vol.18, no.9, pp.114-117, June 1999.

    Note:   Professor Takehiko Nagakura and a handful of graduate students have embarked on a documentation project called "The Unbuilt". Using computer modeling, four 20th-cent. projects by Tatlin,
          Terragni,   Lingeri, M. Webb and Le Corbusier that were never built are being fully realized on screen. "Metropolis online" is available at http://www.metropolismag.com/. (Avery Online)

"Unappreciated architects: Mike Webb: the story of the spider."  Cook, Peter.   Architectural review, vol.170, no.1012, pp.42-46, July 1981.
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Articles listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.
 

Web Sites:

Archigram. www.archigram.net/
The history of the firm and its projects.

arcSpace.  www.arcspace.com/architects/archigram/
A brief description of the firm with a number of images.
 

Judy Connorton
October 2005