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Sir Peter Cook RA (born 22 October 1936) is an English architect, lecturer and writer on architectural subjects. He was a founder of Archigram, [1] and was knighted in 2007 by the Queen for his services to architecture and teaching. He is also a Royal Academician and a Commandeur de l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic.
Oct 22, 2019 · As one of the founding members of Archigram, the avant-garde neo-futurist architecture group of the 1960s, the British architect, professor, and writer Sir Peter Cook (born 22 October 1936)...
Jan 31, 2014 · Professor Sir Peter Cook RA, founder of Archigram, former Director the Institute for Contemporary Art, London (the ICA) and Bartlett School of Architecture at University College, London has...
Jul 10, 2013 · Between 1960 and 1974 Archigram created over 900 drawings, among them the plan for the “Plug-in City” by Peter Cook. This provocative project suggests a hypothetical fantasy city, containing ...
Sir Peter Cook (born 22 October 1936) is an English architect, lecturer and writer on architectural subjects. He was a founder of Archigram, and was knighted in 2007 by the Queen for his services to architecture and teaching.
Oct 16, 2023 · Professor Sir Peter Cook, founder of Archigram, Director of the Institute for Contemporary Art, London (1970-1972) and Chair of the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London (1990-2006), has been a pivotal figure within the global architectural world for over half a century.
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. 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.
Apr 22, 2022 · The drawings of Peter Cook (Southend-on-Sea, 1936) still today bear testimony to those vibrant years of energetic optimism and technological arcadias represented in the iconic collages of Archigram.
Oct 16, 2007 · Bryant Rousseau: Peter, how would you distill the essence of what made Archigram unique in the history of architecture? Sir Peter Cook: There were two essential things. One is the range of invention. Forget the mannerisms and styling and the necessary protocol; we focused on invention.
As a founder member of the visionary group Archigram in the early 1960s, Peter Cook helped to project radically new possibilities for architecture. But it was not until 2003, with the opening of the Kunsthaus in Graz, designed with Colin Fournier, that these visions were manifested in large and prominent building.
