![]() ![]() > Read more about Peter Cook’s thoughts and career in Syndromes, Influences, and Projects, the editorial he wrote for THE PLAN 065 In 2006, Peter Cook founded CRAB with Gavin Robotham, and, more recently, CHAP, with Erlend Blakstad Haffner and Branko Belaćević. In 2002, the Royal Institute of British Architects awarded Archigram the Royal Gold Medal. ![]() Among Archigram’s projects is the Plug-in City, a megastructure that incorporates residences, transport, essential services, and giant cranes that are constantly reorganizing the city. In the process, the studio influenced a whole generation of architects and urban planners, and helped fuel contemporary discussion of architecture. Through the magazine of the same name, Archigram conducted some spirited investigations into design, focusing especially on the theme of the city, looking at its relationships through the lens of new information technologies (the practice’s name comes from architecture and telegram). In the 1960s, he founded the avant-garde Archigram studio together with a “ramshackle” group of British architects: Warren Chalk, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron, and Michael Webb. 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. ![]() “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. ![]()
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