![]() The exterior, a new "two-dimensional exhibition space", has become a communication interface that makes it possible to explore numerous art worlds. The lack of transparency has thus been offset by the novelty of an information panel created thanks to BIX technology. The plastic material was replaced by traditional acrylic resin panels assembled on a metal structure. ![]() In the original project the shell was supposed to be made from translucent plastic laminate, thus allowing the passers-by to glimpse the interiors of the museum, but due to the limited time and the construction drawings which were developed as the building site phases proceeded, the idea had to be shelved. The new museum clashes violently with the historical urban tissue, playing its role of synthesis between past and future to perfection. The city insisted on building it and to complete it by 2003, the year when Graz had been assigned the prestigious role of European culture capital. ![]() After two competitions, launched in 19 respectively, which had not resulted in the construction of any of the winning projects, in 2000 the turn has come to a team of London-based architects, Peter Cook and Colin Fournier (Spacelab), winners of a project featuring an enormous biomorphic shell which Peter Cook himself defined as "friends alien". Opening hours: Mo – Fr 02:00 – 07:00 p.m., Sa – Su 01:00 – 05:00 p.m.In the late Nineties the city of Graz decided to found a new museum of contemporary art. Opening: Saturday, 29th October 2016, 7 p.m.Įxhibition period: Sunday, 30th October 2016 – Sunday, 12th February 2017 Kristin Feireiss, Founder of the Aedes Architecture Forum, Nadejda Bartels, Director of the Museum for Architectural Drawing Peter Cook lives and works in London.Ĭurators: Dr. He was knighted for his service to architecture in 2007. Since the 1980s, Cook has taught at famous universities worldwide, including MIT, UCLA, Harvard, the Bartlett School and other well known faculties. He became internationally known through the architectural pamphlet Archigram, published for the first time by the group carrying the same This exhibition was made in cooperation with the Aedes Architecture Forum at Pfefferberg. Aedes will host a symposium in homage to Peter Cook on the 29th October 2016, to mark his 80th birthday, celebrated with Wolf Prix, Zvi Hecker, Odile Decq and Thom Mayne.įurther information on the symposium and registration and be found under: Artist: Peter Cook was born in Southend-on-Sea, Great Britain in 1936 and studied architecture at the renowned AA – Architectural Association in London. Some of his drawings are based on actual projects, such the urban planning development for Frankfurt-Oberrad in 1986, Real City: Frankfurt (which remained unrealised) many are rather experiments and utopias, such as Arcadia, Vegetated Lump and Hidden City, where the architecture was inspired by the surrounding vegetation, its beginning and end blurred, merging organically into nature. A cactus is set with three symbols of Western architecture: the grid, a skyscraper and a square, where the spread of vegetation, again the process of metamorphosis, transforms the skyscraper to the point that it is no longer recognisable. In the series Way Out West: Berlin made in the 1980s, Peter Cook posed the question, “Why is the language of architecture so limited?”. Underwater cities, living cells, plug-ins and hybrid villas were created: the ideas and experiments from this period, particularly the central motif of metamorphosis, recur throughout The given notions of form and space were to be overridden and burst apart, driven by the curiosity to explore what a future world may look like and question whether architecturalĪrchigram searched for new solutions and concept models, focussing on the development of society. This group whose name originated from the architectural pamphlet, Archigram – a wordplay on architecture and telegram – was founded in the 1960s by young British architecture graduates who strove to break away from traditional architectural office routine and continue the discourse stimulated during their studies. Peter Cook is regarded as one of the leading instigators of Archigram. Retrospective enables a view into the artist’s work from Archigram to CRAB, from 1968 to today, from Plug-In City to Hidden City. Work now, almost 40 years on, Peter Cook returns to Berlin. ![]() Back in 1982, the Aedes Architecture Forum, then located in the Savigny Platz arches, showed a fantastic exhibition of his Retrospective is dedicated to the drawings of the famous British architect who is celebrating his 80th birthday this year. The new temporary exhibition, Peter Cook. Museum for Architectual Drawing shows from 30th October 2016 the exhibition Retrospektive by the architect Peter Cook.
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