Peter Cook graduated from the Architectural Association in the late 50s, and was, among other things, a student of Peter Smithson and James Gowan. In 1961, with David Greene, he published the first issue of the magazine Archigram, a springboard for one of the most significant architectural and urban counter-utopias of the latter half of the 20th century. Between 1962 and 1976, together with Ron Herron, Warren Chalk, Dennis Crompton, and Michael Webb, and accompanied by the theoretician and critic Reyner Banham, Peter Cook co-produced, in the name of Archigram, a very large number of projects challenging the relationships between architecture, the city, and the western civilization made up of leisure, media and mass consumerism. These spectacular projects, at once critical and enthusiastic, saw in nomadism, the ephemeral and obsolescence, new ways of living for human communities, and new ways of living in the world. Since 1976, Peter Cook has been associated with Christine Hawley, and is still developing radical and theoretical projects involving, in particular, contemporary technological and territorial changes. He is also head of the Bartlett School in London and a regular contributor to the Architectural Review.	(GB)
	Peter Cook Cook (Peter) (1936)