![]() Does this mark the end of an era in architecture that you shaped when you were young, when you think of the Plug-in City and metabolism? The Nagakin Capsule Tower in Tokyo will be knocked down, soon, unfortunately. The Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin, in its exhibition on Mark Fisher and StuFish, claims that the ideas of Archigram survived (only) in stage design. Now, I would like to do some print runs of older drawings, too. I sold sixty prints this year, so now I have a tax problem! Especially the “Filter City” series sold well. Some drawings are in the MoMA in New York, some are in the DAM in Frankfurt and the Pompidou in Paris. There should be one, but the works are all over the place. Is there an archive in London of your work from which you picked some cherries? Are we missing any major parts? Was it Kjeld Kjeldsen personally, who put the show together? But these guys at Louisiana are great, too. A Danish PhD student of mine has helped me. You were involved in the design of the show. It is well lighted and well hung and comprehensive. Peter Cook: This is the best show I have ever had. Ulf Meyer: You must be a happy man today. In it, Cook the architectural graphic artist, who was knighted by the Queen in 2007, is described as a “teacher, artist, utopian.” For the Graz Kunsthaus he needed Colin Fourier for the Architecture School in Queensland Gavin Robotham and his mediocre apartment building on Berlin's Lützowplatz (with Christine Harley) no longer appears in his CV. Little of this comes through in Cook's built architecture, where there is no theoretical edifice. ![]() Cook's experiments were groundbreaking in the "Vegetated Lump" series, which tells of the merging of architecture and vegetation and organically merges nature into architecture. It becomes clear how far today's architecture has strayed from these axioms when one sees Cook's “quotational” city fantasies of underwater cities and living cells neatly framed in the museum. Archigram (a portmanteau of "architecture” and “telegram") has been telling the same story since 1968: technology is a promise city and place are unimportant space travel is cool and architecture is boring.
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