Sir Peter Cook is a world-renowned English architect, writer and educator. He was the Dean of the Architecture School at the Staedelschule, in the 1980s, injecting the programme with much of the experimental and international flavor that SAC stands for today. Cook, a pivotal figure within the global architecture world for over half a century, has been Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Chair of Architecture at the Bartlett School of UCL and is Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Architecture, amongst other things.
Sir Cook is the director of CRAB Studio, formed in 2006. Since its inception CRAB has won competitions for the Verbania Theatre in Piedmont, Italy; the Law School of the Vienna Economics University and the School of Architecture building for Bond University in Queensland, Australia, amongst numerous other prizes including three versions of the Taiwan Tower in Taichung. CRAB studio is closely associated with the Bartlett and Architectural Association in London, ESA in Paris, Lund University in Sweden, and SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.
Sir Cook is a founding member of the 1960s radical experimentalist group Archigram having previously graduated from the AA. His achievements with Archigram have been the subject of numerous publications and public exhibitions and were recognized by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2004, when Cook was awarded RIBA’s highest award, the Royal Gold Medal. In 2007, he was knighted. He has previously won the competitions for the Monte Carlo Entertainments Centre (with Archigram), the Historical Museum and Park in Bad Deutsches Altenburg, Lower Austria (with Christine Hawley) and the much-published Kunsthaus Graz (with Colin Fournier) completed in 2003.
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Application: Master of Arts Program in CURATORIAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES
Information, 25 March – 31 May 2024
Phillip Zaiser (1969–2024)
Obituary, 6 April – 6 May 2024
Camille Norment: Cultural Psychoacoustics
Lecture, 23 April 2024, 19:00
R.H. Quaytman: Book
Lecture, 30 April 2024, 19:00
Water Cooler Talks 2024
Event, 10 February 2024, 10:00–18:00
Rundgang 2024
Exhibition, 9 – 11 February 2024, 10:00–20:00
Nora Turato: Lecture
Lecture, 6 February 2024, 19:00
Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé: Unmasking Series–Towards Public Co-creation
Lecture, 30 January 2024, 19:00
Unextractable? Sammy Baloji and Bénédicte Savoy in Conversation
Lecture, 25 January 2024, 19:00
Manon de Boer: Three Films
Lecture & Screening, 22 – 23 January 2024, 19:00
Ann Demeester: The Museum as Transhistorical ‘Garden of Consciousness’?
Lecture, 16 January 2024, 19:00
Moritz Fehr: Evocation, Installation, Simulation
Lecture, 9 January 2024, 19:00
Peter Cook: Peter Cook and CRAB
Lecture 21 June 2012, 19:00 Aula, Städelschule, Dürerstraße 10, 60596 Frankfurt am Main