Talk

Dennis Crompton, a founding member of the avant-garde British architecture collective, Archigram,
discusses the exhibitions and publishing program at the Architectural Association in the years from the mid-1970s in parallel with the academic program of Alvin Boyarsky and the technical developments in pre-press production equipment, computerization and software and printing techniques. Examples of these publications are on view in Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association.
Free. Co-sponsored by RISD's Department of Architecture, Brown University's Department of the History of Art and Architecture and the RISD Museum.
Dennis Crompton
Born in Blackpool, UK, in 1935, Crompton graduated from the School of Architecture at Manchester University in 1960 with qualifications in Architecture and Urban Design. He is one of the original six members of the Archigram Group that formed in London in the early 1960s and conspicuously in charge of all the technical matters that form part of Archigram's output. An enthusiast for gadgets, machines, techniques, and systems, Crompton, the most practical member of the group, has nevertheless been known to flip completely when confronted with the opportunity to make a bigger, better and more bang-in-the-night apparatus. Crompton's involvement with the Architectural Association School began in 1965 and from the early 1970s until 1996 when he was responsible for communications, exhibitions and publishing. He taught masters courses in Architecture and in Urban Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He designs exhibitions and books and guided the Archigram Exhibition around Europe, the United States and Asia since its opening in Vienna in 1994.