Peter Cook (architect)

Peter Cook ( born October 22, 1936 in Southend-on- Sea, United Kingdom ) is a British architect and author. He is a member of the famous in the sixties group Archigram.

Life

Peter Cook is a graduate of London's prestigious Architectural Association and was co-editor and author of the magazine Archigram active and until 1976 one of the leaders and thinkers of the Archigram group since the early sixties. Archigram is the first time in 1963 came with the presentation of Living City to the public, bringing the group spoke out against this formal conventions and ways of thinking of architecture in favor of loose and free associations. Priority of their activities were pop culture and advanced technologies. The most important projects were Plug-In City, Walking City, Cushicle and Instant City. Peter Cook walked in his later own projects, such as Green, Yellow, Red and Blue Houses, his theoretical statements into increasingly pragmatic construction projects. However, the basic idea of ​​conceptual models and ideas of Archigram in the work of Peter Cook always remain dominant until today.

In recent years, it is next to some interesting projects realized in collaboration with Christine Hawley, as well as Cook, kicked professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, primarily for his architectural theory arguments in written and spoken worldwide phenomenon. Special international acclaim, the new building of the Kunsthaus Graz ( The Friendly Alien ) in Graz, Austria in 2003.

Since 1984, Peter Cook professor at the Städel School in Frankfurt am Main, for which he designed in 1992 and the construction of the high school cafeteria. He also teaches at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. Other stations of Peter Cook as a visiting professor were: MIT, UCLA, Harvard, Tokyo, Oslo, Moscow, Rice, Queensland, Berlin, Haifa, Madrid and Aarhus and other 70 universities. He currently teaches at the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris.

In January 2004, the latest book project by Peter Cook as The City, Seen As a Garden of Ideas is published by Monacelli Press. In this book, he combines his own projects with general considerations to urban space and to cities such as Tokyo, Edinburgh, Houston or Santa Monica. In this he is, however, " not to entire cities, not entire projects, but rather accumulated fragments and various inspirations " (to quote Peter Cook).

Peter Cook lives and works in London.

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The Bartlett School of Peter Cook:

Publications

• 2004 The City, Seen As a Garden of Ideas
• 1999 Archigram
• 1993 Peter Cook