Peter Cook
Address:
Crab Studio
81 Essex Road
London, N1 2SF
Phone: 02078374262
Email: [email protected]
[email protected]
Website: http://www.crab-studio.com
- Graduate of the Bournemouth College of Art and the Architectural Association in London, he has been a pivotal figure within the architectural world for 50 years. A founder of the Archigram Group who were jointly awarded the Royal Gold Medal of the RIBA in 2004. In 2007 he received a Knighthood for hisservices to architecture, in 2011 he was granted an honorary Doctorate of Technology by the University of Lund. He is also a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France and a member of the Royal Academy of Arts.His recent books are ‘Drawing – the motive force of Architecture (Wiley) ‘Peter Cook Architecture Workbook’ (Wiley) and a full catalogue of his work will be published by UCL press.Former Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Bartlett, he is Emeritus Professor at University College London, The Royal Academy of Arts and the Frankfurt Staedelschule. He was Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 2015.Education
Bournemouth College of Art (1953-58) Architectural Association Membership
Royal Institute of British Architects Architects Registration BoardAWARDS
2010 Honorary Doctorate of Technology, Lund University
2010 Mario Pani Award for Architecture, Mexico City
2008 Title of the Royal Academy of Arts
2008 Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art, London
2007 Knighted in Queen’s Honours’ list (for services in architecture)
2004 Finalist for Prize for Kunsthaus Colin Fournier
2003 Commandeur de l’ordre des Arts France Republic
2002 RIBA Royal Gold Medallist (with Archigram)
2002 RIBA Annie Spink Award, jointly awarded to David Green
2000 Kunsthaus Graz, Austria (with Colin
1996 Jean Tschumi Medal, Architects
1969 Grant awarded by Graham Instant City
1965 ‘Young Designers’ Sunday
1962 Gas Council House Design (First Prize)
1961 Piccadilly Circus
1960 Henry Florence Student A.A. (Building Centre research Scholar)APPOINTMENTS
Professor Emeritus at University College London Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts
Life Professor at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste (Staedelschule) Frankfurt
Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art, London
Fellow of the Bournemouth Arts University
Member of the Hessische Architektenkammer
1990 – 2006:versity College, London
1970 – 1972:LondonTeaching : Architectural Association, London 1958-60
Year Master, Unit Master, Tutor: Architectural Association, 64-90
Life Professor, HbK ‘Staedelschul;e’, Frankfurtt-am-Main
Emeritus Professor of Architecture, University College London
Royal Academy Professor of Architecture (ongoing)
Fundamentals : Created Knight Batchelor . June 2007
Founder of ‘Archigram’
Honorary Doctor of Technology, Lund University. 2010BOOKS
Peter Cook Architecture Workbook ; Wiley 2016
‘Drawing’ ; Wiley 2008
Architecture-Action and Plan’ :Studio Vista- Reinhold London/New York
‘Experimental Architecture’ :Studio Vista/St Press London/NY
“Archigram’ editions in English: Studio Vista/Reinhold, Birkhauser, Princeton Architectural Press, also in Japanese, German, Chinese.
‘Spirited Architecture’:Rizzoli New York
A+U ‘Peter Cook’ monograph : A*U Tokyo
‘Peter Cook’ – six conversations‘ :Academy-Wiley London/New York
‘Conversations’ Tokyo Art Randon Tokyo
“Primer’ : Wiley-Academy London/New York
‘The City- Seen as a Garden of Ideas’ Monacelli Press New York
‘The Friendly Alien’ : Bognor ViennaBEST KNOWN EARLY WORK
Plug-in City 1964-66
Instant City 1969-70
Monte Carlo Entertainments Centre 1971-73
Arcadia City 1979-82
Landstuhl Solar Houses 1984
Layer City 1986
Lutzowplaz Housing, Berlin – completed 1992
Stadelschule Frankfurt – completed 1995
Social Housing, Madrid, completed 2012COLLABORATIONS
Archigram Group 1963-1975
PROF. Christine Hawley:1976- 1998
PROF. Colin Fournier: 1998-2004
Gavin Robotham 2004-current
Drawing Studio, Arts University Bournemouth
Commissioned by the Arts University Bournemouth, this structure is the first purpose-built studio for drawing to be constructed at a British art school during the last 100 years. Its Patron is David Hockney. It is used by every department and is a built statement of the continuing central role of drawing in all the creative […]
Vallecas Housing, Madrid, Spain
The provision of 97 apartments, underground parking for 100 cars and a group of kiosks was commissioned by Madrid City’s EMV Agency, for this block within the new Vallecas suburb. In the original scheme, the intention was to create a rooftop games centre that would be balanced by a lively meeting-point by the kiosks. The […]
Abedian School of Architecture
The vision relies heavily on a few simple and effective moves . Internally a central ‘street’ runs east to west, slicing the plan in two. Required furniture storage, service spaces and bathrooms are all located on the northern half, split between three floors. This is a practical placing of these lower-order elements to the north, […]
Vienna University of Economics and Business
The result of a three-stage competition, the two buildings intertwine with the cheerful rounded corners of the coffee shop (at the tip of the Administration building) and the students’ common room (at the corner of the Law building) to greet the visitor. A series of terraced garden-decks form the roof of the Law Library and […]
Kunsthaus Graz
Designed by Sir Peter Cook together with Colin Fournier and won in an open international competition. It houses major art installations, usually designed specifically for the Kunsthaus. Its much-discussed form and layered skin was developed together with Professor Klaus Bollinger and a full size section of the building featured at the Venice Biennale of 1998. […]