The AR’s ongoing and often eccentric enquiry into the vernacular found a home in the worlds of pleasure and leisure
AR 120: Peter Cook on Pleasure
Author Archives: Peter Cook
Outrage: ‘Brexit signals a regression to an insular mentality that limits British culture’
If the ’60s was a casting off of middle-English shackles, the EU referendum threatens to force them back on
‘In the end it’s about people. Not buildings or curriculum’
Drawing on experiences in architecture schools across the globe, Peter Cook addresses the curious conditions that shape their legendary status
‘The Biennale cannot be left in the hands of academics who unwittingly fit so well into a “tick-box” culture’
With the expectations for this year’s Venice Biennale so high, the seriousness of Rem’s fundamentals is let down by attempts to be more ‘relevant’
December 1982: Stirling and Hollein
Peter Cook enthuses over Hans Hollein’s Mönchengladbach museum and James Stirling’s Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart while Jonathan Glancey takes a more in-depth look at Hollein’s project in this piece from the AR Archive
21 Cartoons Lovingly Poking Fun at Architecture School
This set of cartoons offers witty insights into the curious world of architectural education
Zaha Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku is a shock to the system
Confounding context, scale and materiality, the Heydar Aliyev Centre adds to a growing repertoire of prodigious object buildings in the ambitious, oil-rich capital of Azerbaijan
‘Digging a canal or two in a new housing development might, in the long run, be as economic as landscaping the forecourts’
On living on water
Interview: Smout Allen
Exploring the hidden meanings of landscapes by holding ‘a seance for a place’, Mark Smout and Laura Allen’s architectural speculations create a poetic ambiguity that subverts the conventions of drawing and modelling. Interview by Peter Cook and Will Hunter
Peter Cook
Reflection on the continuing importance of the museum
