He was knighted for his service to architecture in 2007. Since the 1980s, Cook has taught at famous universities worldwide, including MIT, UCLA, Harvard, the Bartlett School and other well known faculties. He became internationally known through the architectural pamphlet Archigram, published for the first time by the group carrying the same name in the 1960s. Peter Cook was born in Southend-on-Sea, Great Britain in 1936 and studied architecture at the renowned AA - Architectural Association in London. This exhibition was made in cooperation with the Aedes Architecture Forum at Pfefferberg. Aedes will host a symposium in homage to Peter Cook on the 29th October 2016, to mark his 80th birthday, celebrated with Wolf Prix, Zvi Hecker, Odile Decq and Thom Mayne. Further information on the symposium and registration and be found under: Artist: A cactus is set with three symbols of Western architecture: the grid, a skyscraper and a square, where the spread of vegetation, again the process of metamorphosis, transforms the skyscraper to the point that it is no longer recognisable. Some of his drawings are based on actual projects, such the urban planning development for Frankfurt-Oberrad in 1986, Real City: Frankfurt (which remained unrealised) many are rather experiments and utopias, such as Arcadia, Vegetated Lump and Hidden City, where theĪrchitecture was inspired by the surrounding vegetation, its beginning and end blurred, merging organically into nature. Underwater cities, living cells, plug-ins and hybrid villas were created: the ideas and experiments from this period, particularly the central motif of metamorphosis, recur throughout Peter Cook’s lifework. In the series Way Out West: Berlin made in the 1980s, Peter Cook posed the question, “Why is the language of architecture so limited?”. The given notions of form and space were to be overridden and burst apart, driven by the curiosity to explore what a future world may look like and question whether architectural language is at all set by boundaries.Īrchigram searched for new solutions and concept models, focussing on the development of society. The Kunsthaus Graz by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier. This group whose name originated from the architectural pamphlet, Archigram - a wordplay on architecture and telegram - was founded in the 1960s by young British architecture graduates who strove to break away from traditional architectural office routine and continue the discourse stimulated during their studies. for contemporary architecture by commissioning public buildings for upcoming young architects. Peter Cook is regarded as one of the leading instigators of Archigram. Retrospective enables a view into the artist’s work from Archigram to CRAB, from 1968 to today, from Plug-In City to Hidden City. Back in 1982, the Aedes Architecture Forum, then located in the Savigny Platz arches, showed a fantastic exhibition of his work now, almost 40 years on, Peter Cook returns to Berlin. Retrospective is dedicated to the drawings of the famous British architect who is celebrating his 80th birthday this year. He later (1990) became Professor of Architecture at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, a position from which he retired in 2005.The new temporary exhibition, Peter Cook. He was appointed Life Professor at the Stadelschule (Art Academy) of Frankfurt in 1984, helping establish its reputation as one of the leading German architecture schools. He was Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, from 1970 to 1972. In 1969 he received a grant from the Graham Foundation for work done with Archigram. While working in the office of James Cubitt & Partners, Cook was one of the founder members of the influential Archigram group in the 1960s. He later returned to the AA as a teacher. From 1953 to 1958, he studied architecture at Bournemouth College of Art, and then moved to the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, graduating in 1960. Sir Peter Frederic Chester Cook (born October 22nd, 1936 in Southend-on-Sea in Essex) is a notable English architect, teacher and writer about architecture. 1 of 4 Kunsthaus Graz Lutzowplatz Building Olympic Stadium Peter Cook, UCL Bartlett Professor of Architecture and Chair of the UCL Bartlett School from 1991-2005, received a knighthood for services to architecture in the Queens Birthday Honours this week.
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