Reading Three: Koerth-Baker

"...bad financial decisions and blueprints for machines that weren't built until decades later. Its the important leaps forward that synthesize lots of ideas, and its the belly-up failures that teach us what not to do." This quote suggests that perhaps this is the true purpose of Archigram's experimental ideology and design responses. Maybe its the uninhibited exposing of every idea that popped into their heads that allows us to see the failures from the successes, and in turn we don't have the same failures all over again because they've already been thought out and exposed for criticism a long time ago. Perhaps it is our job then to look over and question these ideas again and see if they can now be adapted to today or the near future.