![]() Floating Ideas presents the opportunity to discover Peter Cook RA ’s. Peter Cook Architect, Watermill, New York. Davids Fond og Samling and Fritz Hansen.ĭreyers Fond supports Louisiana Channel’s videos on architecture. Visionary architect and educator Sir Peter Cook RA creates an installation in the Architecture Space that evokes a world of architectural possibilities through over 60 drawings submitted to the Summer Exhibition from the mid-1960s to the present day. Møllerske Støttefond, Ny Carlsbergfondet, C.L. Louisiana Channel is supported by Den A.P. Among Cook’s high-profile projects are the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Watha T. Marc-Christoph Wagner interviewed Peter Cook at his studio in London in January 2022, just before the opening of Peter Cook’s exhibition City Landscapes at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark.Ĭopyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2021 Peter Cook is a Principal at HGA Architects. His more recent works, including the Kunsthaus in Graz, Austria, has brought his ideas to a broader audience. One of the most significant works from his time with Archigram, The Plug-In City, still holds the potential to invoke debates on technology and society to this day. He has been a pivotal figure in the global architectural world for over half a century. I was arrogant enough to say: ‘I’m sorry, I’m not just going to sit at the back of the process and specify door handles I’m going to be a creative architect.’ And so, you just bloody well had to do it like an artisan.”Īs a founding member of the avant-garde neo-futuristic group Archigram in the early 1960s, Cook helped project radically new architecture possibilities. “Because I was not a natural drawer, I realised that I was determined to communicate ideas. ![]() When he began studying architecture at art school, he was both intrigued and challenged by the practice of drawing. Around the age of eleven, he started reading books about architecture and was already fascinated by the modern by then. ![]() The town had a lot of cultural activities, and he accompanied his mother, a frustrated artist, to galleries, operas, and symphony concerts from a very young age. 1936) grew up in the city of Lester in the latter part of the second world war.
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