Peter’s continuing work as a lecturer of considerable renown makes him a familiar voice within cultural institutions around the world, where many have enjoyed an opportunity to hear Peter expound (among other subjects) upon his love affair with the slithering, the swarming and the spooky. Peter has also built in Osaka, Nagoya, Berlin, Frankfurt and Madrid. Peter has from the very beginning made waves in architectural circles, however, it is in the last few years that the construction of his arts building in Graz, Austria (the Kunsthaus, AKA The Friendly Alien) has brought his work to a wider public, a process set to continue with the construction of the Vienna Business and Economics University’s new law faculty and Bond Univeristy in Australia’s new School of Architecture. In the living room at the rear of the house, Peter Cook’s and Yael Reisner’s book collection competes with CDs for space. His professorships include those of the Royal Academy, University College, London and the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste (Staedelschule) in Frankfurt-Main, Germany. Peter is currently a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art, London. Cook’s hugely influential Archigram collective used ’60s futuristic ideas to visualise mobile cities, and the archive of its work has now found a permanent home in Hong Kong. Among Cook’s high-profile projects are the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Watha T. He is also a Royal Academician and a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres of the French Republic. Peter Cook is a Principal at HGA Architects. In 2007, Peter was knighted by the Queen for his services to architecture. Peter’s achievements with radical experimentalist group Archigram have been the subject of numerous publications and public exhibitions and were recognised by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2004, when members of the group were awarded the RIBA’s highest award, the Royal Gold Medal. His ongoing contribution to architectural innovation was most recently recognised via the conferral of an honorary doctorate in April 2010, by the University of Lund, Sweden. Professor Sir Peter Cook RA, founder of Archigram, former Director the Institute for Contemporary Art, London (the ICA) and Bartlett School of Architecture at University College, London has been a pivotal figure within the global architectural world for over half a century.
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