![]() ![]() ![]() He’s also held professorships at the Städelschule in Frankfurt and at Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. “It’s called Speculations and, as well as a large collection of my drawings, it will have texts by Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne, Peter Wilson, and Toyo Ito.”īorn in 1936, Cook studied architecture at Bournemouth College of Art and the Architectural Association in London, where he later taught for 26 years. “In autumn, the exhibition will be moving to Oslo for the 2022 Architecture Triennale,” continues the architect, who’s currently working on a new book that’s due out a little later this year. “I’d certainly never design a gray building,” says Sir Peter, who, in six decades of work, has expressed his thoughts through innumerable drawings, many of which have been brought together for the Peter Cook – City Landscapes exhibition, which will be on display at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark, until Sunday, May 8. One wall is covered with colorful puppets and another by a bookcase full of books. He’s sitting by a window overlooking a lush garden at his home in England. “What interests me most,” he continues, “is the vocabulary of architecture: it’s more important to see a lot of works than to create them.” Wearing a dark shirt with white polka dots and round electric blue glasses, Sir Peter talks about a 60-year career as an architect and teacher. Watch World Architecture Community's other interview with Will Alsop here.“I’m convinced that we exist to discover and invent.” According to Sir Peter Cook, founding member of Archigram, the optimistic, visionary spirit that energized the architectural avant-garde of 1960s London is still relevant today. Abdi Güzer at WAF 2017 on November 16.Īs media partner for this year's World Architecture Festival, World Architecture Community has hosted a series of interviews with prominent architects during the seminar program of WAF 2017 and other WAC talks will be online soon. Before passing to the interview, please take a look at a short portion of the fantastic presentation given by Sir Peter Cook, full of energy, at WAF 2017 on November 16.Ī portion of the fantastic presentation given by Sir Peter Cook, full of energy, at WAF 2017 on November 16.Ī fun interview with Sir Peter Cook, performed by Prof. Abdi Güzer, both an architect and critic, in Arena Berlin during this year's World Architecture Festival. In this World Architecture Community's exclusive interview, Peter Cook is in conversation with Prof. The Drawing Studio was opened to the public with the late Zaha Hadid, just before her unexpected death on March 31, 2016. CRAB Studio recently completed a Drawing Studio, Arts University Bournemouth, England last year. Sir Peter Cook founded CRAB Studio - literally known as Cook-Robotham Architectural Bureau - with Gavin Robotham in 2006 in London. Archigram's group won the Royal Gold Medal in 2002. The futuristic movement is best known with The Plug-In City, combining society and technology as a "workable" and a good hybrid.įounded with Warren Chalk, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb in the 1960s, Archigram - though they did not build anything together - influenced many generations of architects through its conceptual newness. ![]() ![]() "The late Zaha Hadid had a 'tricky relationship' with her practice’s current director Patrik Schumacher, said Peter Cook, while evaluating other architects' works and the methods of design including Japanese architect Toyo Ito and Chinese architect Wang Shu.Ĭook, 81, is one of founders of an avant-garde and neo-futurist architecture group of Archigram in the 1960s, which created a series of transformative radical proposals. "It is important to design in the right time and in the right place socially, economically, culturally and politically," emphasized British architect, Professor, writer and founder of Archigram Sir Peter Cook in both during his lecture at this year's World Architecture Festival and in an exclusive interview with World Architecture Community.Īddressing a large audience during a lecture at the World Architecture Festival 2017 in the second day of the event, Cook has evaluated many young generation architects, their works and their progressive backgrounds in contemporary architecture scene, passing beyond their creativity and programmable agenda. ![]()
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