Title & Author:

Layering & Change / [presented by] Peter Cook (Cook-Robotham Architectural Bureau).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1988.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (29 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Peter Cook -- Museum, Langen Near Frankfurt 1986, With Christine Hawley. North Facade -- Museum, Langen Near Frankfurt 1986, With Christine Hawley. Plan At Ground Level -- Museum, Langen Near Frankfurt 1986, With Christine Hawley. Plan Of Working Levels -- Museum, Langen Near Frankfurt 1986, With Christine Hawley. Model, North Side -- Museum, Langen Near Frankfurt 1986, With Christine Hawley. Opened-Up Model, Plan View -- Museum, Langen Near Frankfurt 1986, With Christine Hawley. Section -- Museum, Langen Near Frankfurt 1986, With Christine Hawley. Section -- Museum, Langen Near Frankfurt 1986, With Christine Hawley. Model Of South Part -- Museum, Langen Near Frankfurt 1986, With Christine Hawley. Site Plan -- Competition Design For Information City Near Tokyo, Japan, 1986. Series Of Cartoons & Elevations -- Competition Design For Information City Near Tokyo, Japan, 1986. Plan Detail -- Competition Design For Information City Near Tokyo, Japan, 1986. Typical Section -- Competition Design For Information City Near Tokyo, Japan, 1986. Section Through Auditorium & Restaurant Areas -- 'Real City' Project, Frankfurt. 'Hulks': Basic Structures For Circulation & Services -- 'Real City' Project, Frankfurt. A Clothed 'Hulk'. The Villa -- 'Real City' Project, Frankfurt. A Planted 'Hulk' Development -- 'Real City' Project, Frankfurt. Tower Marking Avenue's Change Of Direction -- Competition Design For Re-Development Of An Area Of Hamburg, 1987. Site Plan -- Competition Design For Re-Development Of An Area Of -- Hamburg, 1987. Small Exhibition Hall & Hotel At End Of 'Land Pier'. Drawing & Model -- Social Housing For IBA At Lützowplatz, Berlin, 1987. West Facade -- Theoretical Project For Exhibition Commenting On Present State Of Berlin, 1988.

Summary:

Peter Cook, erstwhile partner in the well-known Archigram group, graduated from the Architectural Association in 1960. He has been on the staff of the AA since 1960 and guest professor at many international universities; and since 1984 he has headed the Architectural Department of the State Art Academy (Stadelschule) in Frankfurt. As a result there has been much interaction between all his students, and also staff, from the various educational bodies including North East London Polytechnic's Architecture Department presided over by his present partner Christine Hawley. Cook and Hawley have won many prizes and their designs have been exhibited and published worldwide. But it is only now that they have any work under construction - a housing block in Berlin. In this talk Peter Cook discusses recent work and continues to be preoccupied with change and metamorphosis, layering, conditions of translucency and transparency. He does not see architecture pragmatically or spatially or organisationally with hard lines between. "So, although most of the projects start from a base of a grid or a series of grids, the edges then melt and they lap over one another". Projects act as generators for subsequent projects as he tried to discover "a sort of rhetorical architecture".

Subject:

Architectural design.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Design architectural.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.

Added entries:

Cook, Peter, 1936- narrator.

Layering and change