In his Skywaft City series (1984-85), he challenges notions of form with his part-skeletal, part-vegetated and part-in-the-sky structures. It comes as no surprise then, that in Damstead Towers (1993) Cook turns the pyramid on its head: the tip becomes the base for an eight-floor building. He brings to the table a dialogue that isn’t about an ‘ism’ and that’s when architecture begins to talk to the outside,” says Akshat Bhatt, principal, at Architecture Discipline studio. With Peter you don’t talk only about architecture. Their work was a discourse on multiple streams, including art, theatre, even journalism. “When I was introduced to Archigram’s work in the ’80s, it felt like I was reading George Orwell’s 1984. Archigram delivered visions of technologically advanced cities that walked on four legs, Plug-In Cities that could be stacked and changed like cords in an outlet, and Instant Cities that could be flown in and made to sprout like spring flowers into the hands of any eager architect, critic or admirer.” A Global History of Architecture (2007) records: “Challenging the grid established by Le Corbusier, Archigram’s texts, collages, and comic book-style designs emphasised the use of anything but 90-degree angles and thematised the curving and twisting of Le Corbusier’s straight lines. “I want to make it uncomfortable - for the philistine, for the boring architect, for the person who wants his building to be predictable,” says Cook, 78, who was knighted in 2007 by Queen Elizabeth II for his services in architecture.Ī founder member of the collective Archigram (short for Architectural Telegram), Cook, along with a group of six British architects began the eponymous magazine in 1961, creating a space for alternate ideas. The gallery’s decision to present architectural drawings is brave and takes the debate on built spaces forward. Now, Cook’s artwork of over four decades is being exhibited for the first time in India.īrought together by Gallery Espace in New Delhi and design studio Architecture Discipline, 34 watercolours by Cook present a debate on building hierarchies. ![]() The London-based architect and professor has given the world a gamut of avant-garde ideas: mixing architecture, technology, nature and society in pop-art colours. To mark the museum’s 10th anniversary, the exhibition shows around 120 works – partly never exhibited before – from the collections of the Tchoban Foundation and its founder Sergei Tchoban, which will convey to the public the artistic possibilities of architectural drawing.Īn exhibition catalogue is available.Looking at Peter Cook’s drawings and sketches is like going down the rabbit hole of possibilities. 18a, 10119 BerlinĪrchitecture on paper holds an independent position within the graphic arts, regardless whether it is in the service of realised or unrealised buildings. Museum for Architectural Drawing, Christinenstr.
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