12/3/2023 0 Comments Young peter cook architect![]() Not to be put off, intimidated by those who just happen to be older.The following text is an edited transcription of GSAPP Conversations Episode #6, a podcast produced by Columbia GSAPP’s Office of Communications and Events in collaboration with ArchDaily.Ĭurrent Columbia GSAPP student Jarrett Ley speaks with Sir Peter Cook, one of the founders of the radical experimental group Archigram, who delivered a lecture at the School in the Spring 2017 Semester. The fab six: david green, warren chalk, peter cook, mike webb, ron herron,dennis crompton image courtesy peter cookĪnd those still active, are there any particular ones you appreciate? Is there any architect from the past, you appreciate a lot? I suppose seeing what happens to former students, but so few of them go onto actually doing anything. Which of your work has given you the most satisfaction? but it is nice to get the medal, and for us it symbolizes that there is a sort of thread of people that are optimistic and creative and imaginative, although they do not all have to do the same kind of thing. ![]() I myself can remember when I wouldn’t have been caught dead using a metal structure. we should have been given the medal years back, but the guys in between wouldn’t have been caught dead even giving us a cup of tea. I am extremely cynical about all of this, and I don’t think it has anything to say with the actual content of the work. I guess we’re due to go out of fashion again any minute. and this sort of breaks the rules, because it’s as if you’re supposed to be out of the scene. but what amazes people is that we’re still alive and we can come around and talk about it. archigram has been out of style for a long time, but about 8 years ago, archigram started to get more attention again. and another thing I find fascinating is that certain things are in the air at a certain time, and I find this amazing and I’ve never gotten to the bottom of this. the new is not only the product of the past. other people have imagination but can’t apply it. maybe some people don’t have imagination and borrow other peoples. what we’re involved in is applying imagination. that’s why I can’t stand people who are boring. if civilization has existed for thousands of years, it must and can only go forwards. How do you see your work? is it about the theory or about the actual creation? I’ve always been an optimist and I’ve always been interested in progress. It also has to do with the application of being inspired or having ideas, you can always have an idea about anything, but it could be something even more, it could be even better, there’s still room for improvement and manipulation and the application of ideas in almost every situation.īlow-out village, (project for habitable and movable units, creating an inflatable village here needed) peter cook / archigram, 1966 image courtesy peter cook The spirit of archigram is optimism, you said. Lyrical technical mechanical, even slightly gothic.ĭoes form follow function in your environment? I’m surrounded by architects - wife, friends.ĭescribe your style, like a good friend of yours would describe it. I would love to plan a seaside town, because I come from the seaside.Īrchigram, the true story told by peter cook… image courtesy peter cookĭo you discuss your work with architects and designers? Who would you like to design something for? ![]() Partly at home and partly in university, sometimes in austria where we have a house. ![]() Where do you work on your designs and projects? When you were a child, what did you want to be? Plug-in city, 1964 peter cook / archigram image courtesy peter cook What kind of clothes do you avoid wearing? I like women who have originality of style and who have a view of themselves. Not very much, I don’t find them very stimulating. What books do you have on your bedside table?Įither a biography or mostly architecture or catalogues or text books, information books. The new museum of modern art in the city of graz by spacelab – ‘skin and pin’ – a friendly alien. What kind of music do you listen to at the moment? In celebration of its 30th anniversary of archigram designboom met peter cook in london on september 28, 2002Ībout 6:45 in the morning because I wake up very early, and I think my best thoughts, my mind is very clear, I’m an early morning person. ![]()
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