Peter cook architect biography sample

  • Born in , Cook studied architecture at Bournemouth College of Art and the Architectural Association in London, where he later taught for
  • For many years, Cook's career focused primarily on teaching and lecturing; his appointments have included director of London's Institute of Contemporary Arts.
  • Peter Cook redefined modern architecture with his visionary designs and futuristic concepts.

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    Bio

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    peter cook interview

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    in celebration of its 30th anniversary of archigram designboom met peter cook in london on september 28,

     

     

    what is the best moment of the day?

    about in the morning because I wake up very early, and I think my best thoughts, my mind is very clear, I’m an early morning person.

     

     

    what kind of music do you listen to at the moment?

    a lot of 20th century brazilian music.

     

     

     

    the new museum of modern art in the city of graz by spacelab – ‘skin and pin’ – a friendly alien. image courtesy peter cook

     

     

    the new museum of modern art in the city of graz by spacelab – ‘skin and pin’ – a friendly alien. image courtesy peter cook

     

     

    do you listen to the radio?

    a little bit.

     

     

    what books do you have on your bedside table?

    either a biography or mostly architecture or catalogues or text books, information books.

     

     

    do you read design magazines?

    not very much, I don’t find them very stimulating.

     

     

    cover archigram 4, image courtesy peter cook

     

     

    where do you get news from?

    gossip.

     

     

    do you notice how w

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    Cook, Sir Peter Frederic Chester

    Cook, Sir Peter Frederic Chester(&#x;&#x;). British architect much influenced by Cedric Price, and a founder of Archigram. With Colin Fournier and Archigram he won the competition for an Arts and Leisure complex in Monte Carloin , but this was never realized. Cook subsequently produced a series of theoretical projects (some with Christine Hawley), and a few examples of built work, notably a housing scheme in Berlin. More recently, again with Fournier, he designed the new Kunsthaus(Art Gallery) in Graz, Austria(&#x;3), an example of Biomorphicor Zoömorphicarchitecture, known as the &#x;friendly alien&#x; (a form, perhaps of the Blobismustype). For a gallery the skylights (or &#x;nozzles&#x; as the architects term them) do not provide much light, and they suggest the carapace of some prehistoric creature rather than an adequate response to what the building is to be used for.

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    A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture