Feb 8, 2012

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Street Farmer No.2 Spring 1972. Graham Caine, Bruce Haggart and Peter Crump called themselves ‘The Street Farmers’ and proclaimed a vision for the remaking the city that was simultaneously a process of greening and an attack on its very existence. In their provocative collages published in Street Farmer One and Street Farmer 2 in 1972, they showed urban revolutionaries humanizing the landscape by ploughing the streets, surreal images of buildings being gradually eaten away and replaced by vegetation, instructions for making a tree house — and a description of an ecological house, a variant of which they built whilst still architecture students at the Architectural Association. An excerpt from Ecopolis: architecture and cities for a changing climate (2009) by Paul F. Downton. You can also find out some more about Street Farmer 2 in AArchitecture, issue 4, 2007.

Street Farmer No.2 Spring 1972.

Graham Caine, Bruce Haggart and Peter Crump called themselves ‘The Street Farmers’ and proclaimed a vision for the remaking the city that was simultaneously a process of greening and an attack on its very existence. In their provocative collages published in Street Farmer One and Street Farmer 2 in 1972, they showed urban revolutionaries humanizing the landscape by ploughing the streets, surreal images of buildings being gradually eaten away and replaced by vegetation, instructions for making a tree house — and a description of an ecological house, a variant of which they built whilst still architecture students at the Architectural Association.

An excerpt from Ecopolis: architecture and cities for a changing climate (2009) by Paul F. Downton. You can also find out some more about Street Farmer 2 in AArchitecture, issue 4, 2007.

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