Architecture Workbook: Design through Motive

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.

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