![]() ![]() A tendency to mix and discover hybrids of natural conditions mixed with the mechanical and artificial accelerated through the 1980s and 1990s. In the 1970s these designs softened and started to involve layers and vegetation. Developed between 19, these plans showed various iterations of prefabricated modular residences or ‘capsules’, modes of transportation, and other essential services that “plug in” to one central hyper structure. This becomes apparent in his ongoing series of works titled Arcadia, which he has produced continuously throughout his career, as well as one of his most notable projects, Plug-in City (also exhibited in ICA’s Living City). By lifting the limitations of the physical world, drawing has freed him from the constraints of sites and economics, reinventing the look and function of cities through a range of unique, innovative designs. Since the 1960s, Cook has maintained an interest in the theoretical field of architecture and examining the future through the medium of drawing. Archigram brought forward radical ideas that have continued to serve as inspiration around the world, including pioneers of high-tech architecture such as Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster and Rem Koolhaas. In Living City Peter Cook, together with Warren Chalk, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb – who were shortly after to become formally known as the celebrated neo-futurist architectural group, Archigram - extolled the transience and serendipity of cities with hot images collaged into a three-dimensional triangulated framework. The exhibition coincides with the 60-year anniversary of the exhibition Living City at the ICA, at that time on the same street as Richard Saltoun Gallery. Visitors are invited to have a ‘visual discussion’ about cities: cities reimagined and dismembered, and cities climbing over themselves to become new forms. Drawing on his work over the past 60 years, the exhibition features a site-specific architectural environment produced especially for the gallery, together with a selection of drawings and paintings that trace the radical conceptual vision underpinning the artist’s oeuvre. Richard Saltoun Gallery is honoured to present the visionary work of British architect Sir Peter Cook.
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