
Architecture Workbook
Design through Motive
Peter Cook(Author)
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 5. February 2016
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-118-96519-1 (ISBN)
Description
Organised into 9 parts that highlight a wide range of architectural motives, such as 'Architecture as Theatre', 'Stretching the Vocabulary' and 'The City of Large and Small', the workbook provides inspiring key themes for readers to take their cue from when initiating a design. Motives cover a wide-range of work that epitomise the theme. These include historical and Modernist examples, things observed in the street, work by current innovative architects and from Cook's own rich archive, weaving together a rich and vibrant visual scrapbook of the everyday and the architectural, and past and present.
Reviews / Votes
"...a stimulating primer for architecture students and practitioners alike." (Building Engineer, April 2016) "Cook remains an outspoken provocateur and his book is a visual feast of classics and forgotten delights" (RIBA Journal, July 2016)More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 253 mm
Width: 197 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
1038 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-118-96519-1 (9781118965191)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

E-Book
03/2016
Wiley
€33.99
Available for download

E-Book
02/2016
Wiley
€33.99
Available for download
Person
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.
Content
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