Electronic Tomato, 1969 © Warren Chalk, David Greene, Archigram

Archive of 1960s collective's material will appear on a special website

By Charlie Gates

"After 40 years of being stored in garden sheds, under beds and in cupboards, the archive of the 1960s collective Archigram is finally being made available to the public.
The archive of approximately 4,000 drawings, models and audio tapes produced during the group's creative peak will be catalogued and digitised over three years and made available to the public for the first time on a special website.
The process will be funded by a £300,000 grant from the Arts & Humanities Research Council won by the University of Westminster.
Cataloguing the treasure trove of drawings, models and tapes is also expected to unearth long-forgotten sketches and interviews from the group's hazy 1960s past.
An early trawl through drawings stored in Archigram member Dennis Crompton's home has brought to light a lost sketch of the famous Plug-in City on the back of a page of Archigram's second magazine.
There is also a tape of the Archigram Rally held in 1967 that has never been transcribed."