Table of Contents

008 Motive 1: Architecture as Theatre

018 Motive 2: Stretching the Vocabulary

054 Motive 3: University Life and its Ironies

100 Motive 4: From Ordinary to Agreeable

128 Motive 5: The English Path and the English Narrative

154 Motive 6: New Places and Strange Bedfellows

186 Motive 7: Can We Learn From Silliness?

210 Motive 8: The City – Then The Town

240 Motive 9: On Drawing, Designing, Talking and Building

248 Select Bibliography

249 Index

255 PICTURE Credits

About the Author

Peter Cook is the founder of Archigram, the former Director of the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) in London and previous Chair of Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College, London. A pivotal figure within the global architectural world for over half a century, in 2007 he was knighted by The Queen for his services to architecture. A Royal Academician, he is a Commandeur de l'ordre des Arts et Lettres of the French Republic. He is a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art, London, and Emeritus Professor at the Royal Academy, University College, London, and the Hochschule f?r Bildende K?nste (St?delschule) in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. In 2010, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Technology from Lund University in Sweden. Cook is, with Colin Fournier, the architect of the Kunsthaus Graz. He is a director of CRAB in London with Gavin Robotham, which recently completed the new Law Faculties and Central Administration Buildings for Vienna Economics University and the Soheil Abedian School of Architecture for Bond University in Australia.

Reviews

"Cook remains an outspoken provocateur and his book is a visual feast of classics and forgotten delights" (RIBA Journal, July 2016) "... a stimulating primer for architecture students and practitioners alike." (Building Engineer, April 2016)