Peter Cook (architect)

Early life and education

Career

Awards and honours

• 1960 – Henry Florence Student A.A.
• 1961 – Piccadilly Circus competition
• 1962 – Gas Council House Design
• 1965 – Selected as one of "Young British Designers" Sunday Times exhibition
• 1996 – Jean Tschumi Medal, International Union of Architects
• 1969 – Grant awarded by Graham Foundation, Chicago, for Instant City
• 2000 – Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
• 2002 – Annie Spink Award, jointly awarded to David Greene by the RIBA
• 2002 – Royal Gold Medal by RIBA
• 2003 – Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the France Republic
• 2004 – Finalist for Stirling Prize for Kunsthaus Graz
• 2007 – Knighted in Queen's Honours' list
• 2008 – Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art, London
• 2010 – Mario Pani Award for Architecture, Mexico City
• 2010 – Honorary Doctorate of Technology, Lund University, Sweden

  Success in architectural competitions

• 1970 – Monte Carlo Entertainments Centre
• 1990 – Solar Housing, Landstuhl, Germany
• 1992 – Museum of Antiquities, Austria
• 2000 – The Kunsthaus, Graz
• 2006 – New Theatre Verbania, Italy
• 2009 – Faculty of Law and Central Administration, Vienna Business and Economics University
• 2010 – 2nd prize in the Taiwan Tower international competition
• 2011 – Soheil Abedian School of Architecture, Bond University on the Gold Coast, Australia
• 2013 – Finalist in the National Stadium of Israel
• 2013 – Finalist in the Gold Coast Cultural Precinct

  Current appointments

• Professor Emeritus at University College London
• Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts
• Life Professor at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste Frankfurt-Main
• Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art, London
• Honorary Fellow of the Arts University Bournemouth
• Member of the Hessische Architektenkammer
• Member of the RIBA, Architects Registration Board
• Fellow of University College London

  Exhibitions

• Archigram exhibition – 1994 onwards: Vienna, Paris, New York, London, Pasadena, Chicago, Milan, Hamburg, Seoul, Mito, Taipei, Winnipeg, Zurich, Cracow, Zaragoza, Brussels, Rotterdam.
• Curator of Venice Biennale of Architecture British Pavilion 2004, Cyprus Pavilion 2006
• Personal exhibitions – various dates: Los Angeles, Tokyo, Oslo, Berlin, Osaka, Frankfurt.

  Publications

• 1967 – Architecture: Action and Plan. London: Studio Vista.
• 1970 – Experimental Architecture. London/New York: Studio Vista/Universal Books.
• 1972 – Archigram. London: Studio Vista/Reinhold, Birkhauser
• 1975 – Melting Architecture. London: Peter Cook,.
• 1976 – Art Net The Rally: Forty London Architects. London: Art Net/Peter Cook,.
• 1976 – Arcadia: The Search for the Perfect Suburb. London: Art Net/Peter Cook.
• 1980 –. Six Houses. London: AA Publications,.
• 1983 –. Los Angeles Now. London: AA Publications,.
• 1985 – Peter Cook – 21 Years, 21 Ideas. London: AA Publications,.
• 1985 –. Lebbeus Woods. London: AA Publications, 1985,.
• 1987 –. Cities. London: Fisher Fine Arts,.
• 1989 – Peter Cook 1961–89. A+U.
• 1991 –. New Spirit in Architecture. New York: Rizzoli.
• 1993 – Six Conversations. London: Academy Editions,.
• 1996 – Primer. London: Academy Editions.
• 1999 – Archigram. London/New York: Princeton Architectural Press
• 1999 –. The House of the Book: Building, Zvi Hecker. London: Black Dog.
• 1999 –. The Power of Contemporary Architecture. London: Academy Editions.
• 2000 – Bartlett Book of Ideas. London: Bartlett School of Architecture.
• 2001 –. The Paradox of Contemporary Architecture. Chichester: Wiley-Academy.
• 2003 – The City, Seen As A Garden Of Ideas. New York: Monacelli.
• 2008 – Drawing: The Motive Force of Architecture. Chichester: Wiley.
• 2014 – Drawing: The Motive Force of Architecture, Second Edition: Wiley