![]() Peter’s continuing work as a designer and lecturer of considerable renown makes him a familiar voice within cultural institutions around the world, where many have enjoyed an opportunity to hear Peter expound (among other subjects) upon his love affair with the slithering, the swarming and the spooky.Ĭook’s drawings are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York Centre Pompidou, Paris Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt FRAC Centre, Orleans M+ Museum of Art, Hong Kong Japan Architect collection, Tokyo National Museum of Art,Oslo Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He is Founding Partner of the Cook Haffner Architecture Platform (CHAP). Peter Cook on Paper showcases the work of Sir Peter Cook, English architect and writer, and contains over a hundred drawings spanning more than five decades. ![]() Peter has built in Osaka, Berlin, Frankfurt, Madrid, the Kunsthaus in Graz (with Colin Fournier) and university buildings in Vienna, the Gold Coast and Bournemouth. GRAZ, AUSTRIA - JULY 17, 2015: The Kunsthaus Graz aka Grazer Kunsthaus is an art museum designed by British architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier in 2003. His professorships include those of the Royal Academy, University College London and the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste (Staedelschule) in Frankfurt-Main, Germany. Peter is currently a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art, London. He is also a Royal Academician and a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres of the French Republic. In 2007, Peter was knighted by Queen Elizabeth the II for his services to architecture. ![]() Peter’s achievements with radical experimentalist group Archigram have been the subject of numerous publications and public exhibitions and were recognised by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2002, when members of the group were awarded the RIBA’s highest award, the Royal Gold Medal. His ongoing contribution to architectural innovation was recognised via the conferral of an honorary doctorate in April 2010 by the Lund University, Sweden. 1936), founder of Archigram, Director of the Cook Haffner Architecture Platform (CHAP), former Director the Institute for Contemporary Art, London (the ICA) and Bartlett School of Architecture at University College, London has been a pivotal figure within the global architectural world for over half a century.
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