Peter Cook Enjoys Being Silly
Red Carpet Event celebrating Peter Cook’s 80th birthday
Peter Cook, Wolf Prix, Zvi Hecker, Odile Decq and Thom Mayne exchanged ideas and experiences about a life devoted to architecture.
© Peter Cook
Date: Saturday, 29 October 2016
Introduction
”"Away with the sourpusses, the wailing Willies, the sobersides, the brow furrowers, the eternally serious, the sweet-sour ones, the forever important!"
Bruno Taut
34 years after his first show at Aedes Architecture Forum – Peter Cook and his companions Wolf Prix, Zvi Hecker, Odile Decq and Thom Mayne exchanged ideas and experiences about a life devoted to architecture and the importance of being silly.
Peter Cook was born in 1936 in Southend-on-Sea, UK, and graduated from AA Architectural Association in London. He founded the architecture magazine Archigram, which was first published in the 1960s in London, as well as the group of the same name. Since the 1980s he has been teaching at eminent universities worldwide, principally at AA, London, Städelschule Frankfurt and has been involved in the reinvention of the Bartlett UCL, London. Notable buildings are: Graz Kunsthaus (with C. Fourier), Abedian Architecture School, Queensland (with G. Robotham), Arts University Bournemouth ‘CRAB” studio. In 2007, he was knighted by the British Queen for his services to architecture. Sir Peter Cook lives and works in London.
Programme
Impulse Talk by Peter Cook
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Programme
Panel Discussion
”As mastermind of the legendary Archigram movement, architect, teacher, artist, social utopian, philanthropist and humanist, Peter Cook has influenced generations of students and young architects from all over the world with his powerful and meaningful visionary drawings emphasising his philosophy of a better and fairer world for everyone. Today his message is more important than ever.”
Kristin Feireiss
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