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Peter Cook (architect)

Sir Peter Cook RA (born 22 October 1936) is an English architect,
Professor Sir Peter Cook
lecturer and writer on architectural subjects. He was a founder of
RA
Archigram,[1] and was knighted in 2007 by the Queen for his services to
architecture and teaching. He is also a Royal Academician and a
Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic. His
achievements with Archigram were recognised by the Royal Institute of
British Architects in 2004, when the group was awarded the Royal Gold
Medal.

Contents
Early life and education
Career
Awards and honours
Success in architectural competitions
Current appointments
Former appointments
Professor Sir Peter Cook in Kyoto,
Exhibitions December 2010
Publications
Born 22 October 1936
References Southend-on-Sea,
External links England
Occupation Architect

Early life and education

Cook was born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex and studied architecture at Bournemouth College of Art from 1953–58. He
then entered the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, graduating in 1960.[2]

Career
Cook was a director of London's Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Bartlett School of Architecture at University
College London, and has been director of Art Net in London and curator of the British Pavilion at the Venice
Architecture Biennale. He continues to curate, organise and exhibit around the world: in Seoul, LA and Cyprus, the
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and Design Museum, London as well as in castles, sheds and garages.

He is a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art, London. Cook's professorships include those of the Royal Academy,
University College, London and the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste (Städelschule) in Frankfurt-Main, Germany.
Construction of his arts building, the Kunsthaus Graz (aka 'The Friendly Alien') in Graz, Austria (with Colin Fournier)
brought his work to a wider public. In 2013 he (along with his studio CRAB) completed the Vienna Business and
Economics University's new law faculty) and Australia's newest school of architecture, the Abedian School of
Architecture at Bond University on the Gold Coast.

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Cook has also built in Osaka, Nagoya, Berlin and Madrid. He practices with Gavin Robotham as CRAB studio (Cook
Robotham Architectural Bureau),[3] and is married to the Israeli architect, Yael Reisner.

Cook was awarded a knighthood in the Queen's 2007 Birthday Honours List, for services to architecture.[2]

Awards and honours

1960 – Henry Florence Student A.A. (Building Centre research Scholar)
1961 – Piccadilly Circus competition (Mention)
1962 – Gas Council House Design (First Prize)
1965 – Selected as one of "Young British Designers" Sunday Times exhibition
1996 – Jean Tschumi Medal, International Union of Architects
1969 – Grant awarded by Graham Foundation, Chicago, for Instant City
2000 – Kunsthaus Graz, Austria (with Colin Fournier)
2002 – Annie Spink Award, jointly awarded to David Greene (for contribution to architectural education) by the
RIBA
2002 – Royal Gold Medal (with Archigram) by RIBA
2003 – Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the France Republic
2004 – Finalist for Stirling Prize for Kunsthaus Graz (with Colin Fournier)
2007 – Knighted in Queen's Honours' list (for services in architecture)
2008 – Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art, London
2010 – Mario Pani Award for Architecture, Mexico City
2010 – Honorary Doctorate of Technology, Lund University, Sweden

Success in architectural competitions

1970 – Monte Carlo Entertainments Centre (with Archigram)
1990 – Solar Housing, Landstuhl, Germany (with Christine Hawley)
1992 – Museum of Antiquities, Austria (with Christine Hawley)
2000 – The Kunsthaus, Graz (with Colin Fournier)
2006 – New Theatre Verbania, Italy (with Gavin Robotham)
2009 – Faculty of Law, Vienna Business and Economics University
(with Gavin Robotham)
2010 – 2nd prize in the Taiwan Tower international competition (with
Gavin Robotham)
2011 – Soheil Abedian School of Architecture, Bond University on the Kunsthaus Graz
Gold Coast, Australia (with Gavin Robotham and Brit Andresen)[4]
2013 – Finalist in the National Stadium of Israel (CRAB +
POPULOUS)
2013 – Finalist in the Gold Coast Cultural Precinct

Current appointments
Professor Emeritus at University College London
Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts
Life Professor at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste (Städelschule) Frankfurt-Main
Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art, London
Fellow of the Arts University Bournemouth
Member of the Hessische Architektenkammer
Member of the RIBA, Architects Registration Board (ARB)
Fellow of University College London

Former appointments
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Chair of Architecture of the Bartlett School, University College London (1990–2006)

Director, Institute of the Contemporary Arts, London (1970–1972)

Exhibitions
Archigram exhibition – 1994 onwards: Vienna, Paris, New York, London, Pasadena, Chicago, Milan, Hamburg,
Seoul, Mito, Taipei, Winnipeg, Zurich, Cracow, Zaragoza, Brussels, Rotterdam.
Curator of Venice Biennale of Architecture British Pavilion 2004, Cyprus Pavilion 2006
Personal exhibitions – various dates: Los Angeles, Tokyo, Oslo, Berlin, Osaka, Frankfurt.

Publications
1967 – Architecture: Action and Plan. London: Studio Vista.
1970 – Experimental Architecture. London/New York: Studio Vista/Universal Books.
1972 – Archigram. London: Studio Vista/Reinhold, Birkhauser
1975 – Melting Architecture. London: Peter Cook, (published to accompany Art Net exhibition).
1976 – Art Net The Rally: Forty London Architects . London: Art Net/Peter Cook, (published to accompany Art Net
exhibition).
1976 – Arcadia: The Search for the Perfect Suburb. London: Art Net/Peter Cook.
1980 – (with Christine Hawley). Six Houses. London: AA Publications, (published to accompany exhibition at the
Architectural Association).
1983 – (with Barbara Goldstein). Los Angeles Now. London: AA Publications, (published to accompany exhibition
at the Architectural Association).
1985 – Peter Cook – 21 Years, 21 Ideas. London: AA Publications, (foreword by Banham, Reyner and narrative
by Hawley, Christine; published to accompany exhibition at the Architectural Association).
1985 – (editor with Olive Brown). Lebbeus Woods. London: AA Publications, 1985, (published to accompany
exhibition at the Architectural Association).
1987 – (with Christine Hawley). Cities. London: Fisher Fine Arts, (published to accompany exhibition at the
Fischer Fine Arts).
1989 – Peter Cook 1961–89. A+U.
1991 – (with Rosie Llewellyn-Jones). New Spirit in Architecture. New York: Rizzoli.
1993 – Six Conversations. London: Academy Editions, (Architectural Monographs Special Issue, No. 28).
1996 – Primer. London: Academy Editions.
1999 – Archigram. London/New York: Princeton Architectural Press (also in Japanese, German, Chinese)
1999 – (with John Hedjuk and Helene Binet). The House of the Book: Building, Zvi Hecker. London: Black Dog.
1999 – (with Neil Spiller). The Power of Contemporary Architecture. London: Academy Editions.
2000 – Bartlett Book of Ideas. London: Bartlett School of Architecture.
2001 – (with others). The Paradox of Contemporary Architecture. Chichester: Wiley-Academy.
2003 – The City, Seen As A Garden Of Ideas. New York: Monacelli.
2008 – Drawing: The Motive Force of Architecture. Chichester: Wiley.
2014 – Drawing: The Motive Force of Architecture, Second Edition: Wiley

References
1. "About Archigram" (http://archigram.westminster.ac.uk/about.php?pg=archi). The Archigram Archival Project.
Retrieved 16 August 2012.
2. "The Knighthood of Professor Peter Cook" (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0706/07062201). University
College London. 22 June 2007. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
3. "Cook Robotham Architectural Bureau, Home" (http://www.crab-studio.com/). crab-studio.com.
4. "Peter Cook and Brit Andresen to design Bond University School of Architecture - Australian Design Review" (htt
p://australiandesignreview.com/news/21073-Peter-Cook-and-Brit-Andresen-to-design-Bond-University-School-of-
Architecture). australiandesignreview.com.

Interview with Peter Cook on Archinect – Conversation with Peter Cook on the State of Things (http://archinect.co
m/features/article.php?id=76359_0_23_0_M)

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Simon Sadler, Archigram: Architecture without Architecture, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005 [1] (http://mitpre
ss.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10462)
Interview with Designboom (https://web.archive.org/web/20050206185425/http://www.designboom.com/eng/interv
iew/cook.html)
Cook Robotham Architectural Bureau, London (http://www.crab-studio.com/)

External links
The Bartlett: Peter Cook (http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/people/A_cook_peter.htm)
Arcspace: Kunsthaus Graz (https://web.archive.org/web/20080517100208/http://www.arcspace.com/architects/co
ok/)
Knighthood: Peter Cook (06/2007) (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0706/07062201)
Archinect interview (06/2008) (http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=76359_0_23_0_C)
Architectural Record interview (2007) (http://archrecord.construction.com/features/interviews/0711petercook/0711
Petercook-1.asp)
RA interview (2005) (https://web.archive.org/web/20091010111136/http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/architecture/in
terviews/peter-cook-ra-and-the-friendly-alien,211,AR.html)
Designboom interview (09/2002) (https://web.archive.org/web/20050206185425/http://www.designboom.com/eng/
interview/cook.html)
Design Museum: Archigram (https://web.archive.org/web/20080702214724/http://www.designmuseum.org/design/
archigram)
CRAB Studio (http://www.crab-studio.com)
El País (spanish journal) interview (2011) (http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/arquitectura/debe/incluir/vida/elp
epuculbab/20111203elpbabpor_28/Tes)
Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections (http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_I
XFILE_=templates/full/person.html&_IXTRAIL_=Academicians&person=)

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