Peter Cook on paper / edited by Kristoffer Lindhardt Weiss.

[Copenhagen] : The Danish Architectural Press, [2022]

©2022

157 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 33 cm

Catalog of an exhibition held at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, January 21-May 8, 2022.

With his visionary ideas and fantastical, imaginative, and colorful drawings, British architect Peter Cook has profoundly influenced and helped shape architecture and architectural thinking for almost six decades. Since the 1960s, British avant-garde architect and professor Sir Peter Cook (b. 1936) have used drawing as the primary medium to express his alternative and often fantastical ideas and visions. Cook has seen but a relatively small number of his buildings actually erected - including the Kunsthaus Graz in Austria, inaugurated in 2003 and quickly nicknamed "the friendly alien." However, it is first and foremost the theoretical field of architecture that has been of interest to him: the question of what architecture can and must do and thus also the potential that lies in what Cook himself describes as the architect's most important tool, namely drawing.

English

October 21, 2022

Exhibition catalogs.