The 1960s and 1970s avantgarde has been likened to an ampamplsquoarchitectural Big Bangampamprsquo such was the intensity of energy and ambition in which it exploded into the postwar world. Marked out by architectural projects that redefined the discipline it remains just as influential today. References to the likes of Archizoom Peter Eisenman John Hejduk and Superstudio abound. Highly diverse the avantgarde cannot be defined as a single strand or tendency. It was divergent geographically