Architecture Workbook: Design through Motive

About Peter CookSir Peter Cook

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.