Dennis Crompton (born in 1935) is an English
architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...
, lecturer and writer on architectural subjects. He was a member of
Archigram
Archigram was an avant-garde architectural group formed in the 1960s that was neofuturistic, anti-heroic and pro-consumerist, drawing inspiration from technology in order to create a new reality that was solely expressed through hypothetical ...
. He was known as the back-room fixer dealing with technology and looking after the archives of the group.
Early life and education
Crompton was born in
Blackpool and studied architecture at Manchester University. The records he kept of Archigram led to the creation of the Archigram Archives, which in turn led to Crompton assembling the Archigram Exhibit.
External links
Architectural Association staff
1935 births
Living people
Architects from Lancashire
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