Architect Sir Peter Cook was a founder of ARCHIGRAM in the late 1960s. He taught as professor at the Architectural Association from 1964 to 1990, at the Städelschule Frankfurt from 1984 to 2002 and at the Bartlett School of Architecture from 1990 to 2006. 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 2002, 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 Deutsch-Altenburg (with Christine Hawley) and the much-published Kunsthaus Graz (with Colin Fournier) completed in 2003. He realized the buildings of the Law School Vienna, the Architecture School Bond University, the Drawing Studio AUB Bournemouth with Gavin Robotham – and designed the cafeteria of Städelschule in Frankfurt. His drawings are in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt, among others.

The lecture will be held in English.