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Save this picture by Peter Cook via Archigram Archives Dissatisfaction with this status quo pushed the experimental architectural collective to dream of alternative urban scenarios that flied in the face of the superficial formalism and dull suburban tendencies common to British modernism of the time.

In his book Archigram: Architecture without Architecture, Simon Sadler suggests that The aesthetic of incompleteness, apparent throughout the Plug-In scheme and more marked than in megastructural precedents, may have derived from the construction sites of the building boom that followed the economic reconstruction of Europe. Save this picture by Peter Cook via Archigram Archives Persistent precedents and concerns of modernism lay at the heart of Plug-In Citys theoretical impulse, not limited to the concept of collective living, integration of transportation and the accommodation of rapid change in the urban environment. This provocative project suggests a hypothetical fantasy city, containing modular residential units that plug in to a central infrastructural mega machine.