Peter Cook: Six Conversations (Architectural Monographs, No 28)
Peter Cook: Six Conversations by Peter Cook is a monograph published by St Martins Pr in 1993, featuring 144 pages in English. This edition explores Peter Cook’s significant impact on contemporary architecture, highlighting his roles as a teacher and lecturer, as well as his dynamic architectural projects. The book traces his career from his early involvement with the Archigram Group, which represented Britain at the Paris Biennale in 1967, to his successful collaboration with Christine Hawley.
Readers will find insights into Cook’s aims and achievements, along with detailed discussions of his individual projects and collaborations. The text delves into his belief in the necessity of an experimental approach to architecture and the concept of “art-architecture.” Featured projects include Addhox, Way Out West – Berlin, and the World Trade Center Berlin, among others. This illustrated edition provides a comprehensive look at the ideologies and recurring themes that have shaped Cook’s work in architectural design.
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Peter Cook’s influence on the course of contemporary architecture has been far-reaching, in his capacity as a teacher and as a lecturer on the international circuit, as well as in his own dynamic and atmospheric architectural projects. This monograph follows Peter Cook’s career from his earlier work with the famous Archigram Group, which was selected to represent Britain at the Paris Biennale in 1967, through to his highly successful partnership with Christine Hawley. It provides an insight into his aims and achievements, his individual projects and collaborations with others. A believer in the need for an “experimental” element in architecture and of an “art-architecture”, Peter Cook discusses, in the essays published here, the ideologies and recurrent themes and motifs with which he has been preoccupied in his work. The many varied projects featured in this illustrated edition include Addhox, Way Out West – Berlin, Trickling Towers, Layer City, World Trade Center Berlin, Osaka Folly and Dampstead.
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