Re-imagining the Avant-Garde highlights how the work of the 1960s and 1970s is proving a powerful catalyst for contemporary architectural design. It puts a particular focus on the potential of precedent to trigger new visionary ideas and experimental techniques. It explores why after five decades the output of these pioneering groups and individuals have a particular resonance for todays social, cultural and political context. It examines how when used as precedent, the referencing of recent historic languages and ideas reach beyond pastiche or imitation and becomes a significant critical and creative tool for a 21st-century architecture. It is demonstrated how the allusion to seminal projects of an earlier era can free up the imagination and provide a vital springboard for new utopian and speculative worlds. The distinct avant-garde techniques of collage and sampling are recast and elaborated upon, extending beyond drawing and mixed media to encompass different forms of digital media.