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 Peter Cook’s lifework. Peter Cook, the figure to whom the Museum for Architectural Drawing dedicates its latest exhibition, is regarded as one of the leading instigators of Archigram, who override and burst apart the given notions of form and space, driven by the curiosity to explore what a future world may look like and question whether architectural language is at all set by boundaries.Īrchigram searched for new solutions and concept models, focussing on the development of society.
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