Author: Michael Webb 1983. The work is airbrush on Schoellerhammer Illustration board mounted on a heavy composition board. The original is in the Michael Webb Archive.

Michael Webb (born 1937) is an English architect. He was a founding member of the 1960s Archigram Group. Webb was born in Henley-on-Thames and studied architecture at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London, taking seventeen years to complete a five-year curriculum. [1]

In relation to the Michael Webb design, the Suit and Cushicle would be the tent and camel equivalent; the node cores an oasis equivalent: the node cluster communities conditioned by varying rates of change.

The Six Members of Archigram are Peter Cook, David Greene, Mike Webb, Ron Herron, Warren Chalk and Dennis Crompton. Cook, Greene and Webb met in 1961, collaborated on the first Archigram magazine, later inviting Herron, Chalk and Crompton to join them, and the magazine name stuck to them as a group.

The thesis is revisiting Michael Webb’s project “The Cushicle & Suitaloon” from the 1960’s. At that time pneumatic architecture was a new trend because of innovative material systems. The thesis develops his idea of mobile urbanity further by introducing a new material system.

The architectural utopia of tomorrowland, vividly imagined but in most cases never built: domed habitats; plug-in cities; modular polyester pods; pneumatic clusters; artificial floating islands; …

Defining Pneumatics examines the techni-cal and cultural significance of the architectural inflatable, arguing that through soft tectonics, the inflatable ofers a potentially sophisticated model for contempo -rary architectural experimentation.

In relation to the Michael Webb design, the Suit and Cushicle would be the tent and camel equivalent; the node cores an oasis equivalent: the node cluster communities conditioned by varying rates of change.

Mar 13, 2011 · Back to the classics, the Living Pod is an inventive project by David Greene in 1966 for Archigram. This nomadic dwelling has the characteristics of being represented by a lot of amazing documents produced by Greene in the 60’s.

Michael Webb is a founding member of the 1960s Archigram Group, a collection of six young radical architects. They used a magazine format, Archigram inflatable structures, clothing-like environments, bright colors and cartoon-like drawing techniques.