Cities: Moving, Master Vehicle-Habitation Project, Aerial Perspective

1964

Not on view

Returned to lender

This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

Ron Herron, a founding member of Archigram, an influential British group known for its admixture of architecture, science fiction, and pop culture, created his Walking City out of an indefinite number of giant roaming pods containing urban and residential areas. The pods could be connected by retractable corridors and, together, form a conglomerate metropolis. This mobile and indeterminate architecture was not so much a serious proposition for a structure as a commentary on the way in which change dominates every aspect of the modern city. Sottsass referenced the project by reproducing it in his drawing of postapocalyptic ruins of our future civilization in the Planet as Festival series.

Artwork Details

Overview

Exhibition History

Title: Cities: Moving, Master Vehicle-Habitation Project, Aerial Perspective
Artist: Ron Herron (British, 1930–1994)
Date: 1964
Medium: Ink and graphite on tracing paper
Dimensions: 21 3/4 × 32 3/4 in. (55.2 × 83.2 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2000
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art