He recently completed a four year Visiting Professorship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). 96)īorn in 1944, studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London.įournier is Emeritus Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL), where he was, over a period of 18 years, Director of the Master of Architecture course in Urban Design, as well as Director of one of the Diploma Units. Dieter Bogner/ Kunsthaus Graz AG, 2004, p. Kunsthaus Graz, Peter Cook, Colin Fournier Architects, ed. The Kunsthaus speaks to the 'Grazer Schule' buildings of the late 20th century: 'I am your cousin, but I am less spiky and less local than you.' But in a way it speaks more intimately with the Baroque churches and the castle walls: as if part of the same conspiracy to ingratiate aspects of its exuberance at close quarters. (Peter Cook, project author, spacelab Cook/Fournier, London, from: A Friendly Alien. (Peter Cook, project author, spacelab Cook/Fournier, London, in conversation with Barbara Steiner, ) 70 % hated it before the Kunsthaus opened, and after it was the reverse. (Peter Cook, project author, spacelab Cook/Fournier, London, in conversation with Barbara Steiner, )Īustrians are eccentric and perverse. We maybe fucked up the concrete but instead looked into the handrail. (Peter Cook, project author, spacelab Cook/Fournier, London, in conversation with Barbara Steiner, ) Why not buildings as well? If the Kunsthaus succeeds, it may well generate special things happening in the 'nooks and crannies', on the small platforms under things.as well as just outside. (Peter Cook, project author, spacelab Cook/Fournier, London, from: A Friendly Alien. The memorable city is the one where it suddenly changes mood or character. Moreover, the memorable film is the one where the unexpected happens. Everything must be budgeted therefore everything must be 'just so'. We are not conditioned (in polite circles/committees/architectural procedures) to consider extras. Then we ate it. (Peter Cook, project author, spacelab Cook/Fournier, London, in conversation with Barbara Steiner, ) And Colin and I had to explain the whole project using this chocolate cake. And then a television crew was visiting us, we had all these drawings on the wall, but the television crew wasn't interested at all in our drawings, they went to see the cake. He was so excited and made a chocolate cake, a big cake. There was a baker on that side of town, near the station. It is "crap-tech." (Peter Cook, project author, spacelab Cook/Fournier, London, in conversation with Barbara Steiner, ) The building is a mix of highly sophisticated work, low budget and under pressure improvisation. There is a craft tradition in Styria based on timber that has affected the form. This nozzle is to look at the silly old castle. There is this bubble and then there are these people standing there, by the Mur, and they look and they see there is something happening let us see what it is, let us go and have a look. Peter Cook has also built in Osaka, Nagoya, Berlin, Frankfurt and Madrid. Cook has from the very beginning made waves in architectural circles, however, it is since the construction of the Kunsthaus Graz that his work has been brought to a wider public, a process continuing with the completion of the Vienna Business and Economics University’s Departments of Law and Central Administration Buildings and Bond University in Australia’s Abedian School of Architecture. His professorships include those of the Royal Academy, University College London and the Hochschule für Bildende Kunste (Staedelschule) in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. He 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 Cook was knighted by the Queen for his services to architecture. Cook’s achievements with radical experimentalist group Archigram have been the subject of numerous publications and public exhibitions. Professor Sir Peter Cook RA, founder of Archigram, former Director of 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. Born in 1936, studied at the Bournemouth College of Art and the Architectural Association, London.
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