Peter Cook (architect)

Sir Peter Cook (born in 1936 in Southend, Essex) is a notable English architect, teacher and writer about architecture.

From 1953 to 1958, he studied architecture at Bournemouth College of Art, and then moved to the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, graduating in 1960. He later returned to the AA as a teacher. While working in the office of James Cubitt & Partners, Cook was one of the founder members of the influential Archigram group in the 1960s. In 1969 he received a grant from the Graham Foundation for work done with Archigram.

He was Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, from 1970 to 1972.

He was appointed Life Professor at the Staedelschule (Art Academy) of Frankfurt in 1984, helping establish its reputation as one of the leading German architecture schools.

He later (1990) became Professor of Architecture at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, a position from which he retired in 2005.

Awards and honours

In 2002, Royal Institute of British Architects awarded Archigram the Royal Gold Medal for architecture. In 2004, he was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize with Colin Fournier for the Kunsthaus Graz. In 2007, he was made a Knight Bachelor in the Queen's birthday honours.

Work

*Kunsthaus Graz (2003) runner up for the Stirling Prize

References

* Interview with Peter Cook on Archinect - [http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=76359_0_23_0_M Conversation with Peter Cook on the State of Things]
* Simon Sadler, "Archigram: Architecture without Architecture", Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005 [http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10462]
* [http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/cook.html Interview with Designboom]

External links

* [http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/people/A_cook_peter.htm The Bartlett: Peter Cook]
* [http://www.arcspace.com/architects/cook/ Arcspace: Kunsthaus Graz]
* [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0706/07062201 Knighthood: Peter Cook (06/2007)]
* [http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=76359_0_23_0_C Archinect interview (06/2008)]
* [http://archrecord.construction.com/features/interviews/0711petercook/0711Petercook-1.asp Architectural Record interview (2007)]
* [http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/architecture/interviews/peter-cook-ra-and-the-friendly-alien,211,AR.html RA interview (2005)]
* [http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/cook.html Designboom interview (09/2002)]
* [http://www.designmuseum.org/design/archigram Design Museum: Archigram]