Malich, Ksenia A. Art Has Returned: Peter Cook and His Pedagogical Practice at London Architectural Association at the Turn of the 1970s‑1980s

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://dx.doi.org/10.18688/aa200-3-50
Title Art Has Returned: Peter Cook and His Pedagogical Practice at London Architectural Association at the Turn of the 1970s‑1980s
Author email kseniamalich@gmail.com
About author Malich, Ksenia Aleksandrovna — Ph. D., head lecturer. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Staraya Basmannaya ul., 21/4, 105066 Moscow, Russian Federation.
In the section International Art in the 20th and 21st Centuries DOI10.18688/aa200-3-50
Year 2020 Volume 10 Pages 566–575
Type of article RAR Index UDK 72.036 Index BBK 85.11
Abstract

The research deals with the question of new pedagogical programs elaborated at one of the leading European architectural schools — London Architectural Association — during the period of the 1970s‑1980s. Architects who graduated from the Association have become true heroes of contemporary architecture. The list of names connected with the Association is unbelievably representative: Ron Arad, Ben van Berkel, David Chipperfield, Nigel Coates, Peter Cook, Mark Fisher, Zaha Hadid, David Green, Nicholas Grimshaw, Steven Holl, Rem Koolhaas, Leon Krier, Daniel Libeskind, Richard Rogers, Patrik Schumacher, Bernard Tschumi, Elia Zenghelis. The paper is focusing on works and pedagogical methods of Peter Cook, one of Archigram leaders and Architectural Association tutors. Among the questions considered in the paper are futuristic utopian projects, nomadic cities, reprogramming of the city environment, and actualizing of medieval urbanistic models.The paper is based on the materials of the London Architectural Association archive.
Keywords
Reference Malich, Ksenia A. Art Has Returned: Peter Cook and His Pedagogical Practice at London Architectural Association at the Turn of the 1970s‑1980s. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles. Vol. 10. Ed: A. V. Zakharova, S. V. Maltseva, E. Iu. Staniukovich-Denisova. — Lomonosov Moscow State University / St. Petersburg: NP-Print, 2020, pp. 566–575. ISSN 2312-2129. http://dx.doi.org/10.18688/aa200-3-50
Publication Article language russian
Bibliography
  • Aurigi A. Cyberspace and the City: The “Virtual City” in Europe. Aurigi A.; Graham S. A Companion to the City. Oxford, Blackwell Publ., 2000, pp. 489–502.
  • Banham R. Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past. New York, Harper & Row Publ., 1976. 224 p.
  • Blair Th. The International Urban Crisis. St. Albans, Paladin Publ., 1974. 176 p.
  • Bosma K.; Hellinga K. Mastering the City II. North-European City Planning 1900–2000. Rotterdam, NAI Uitgevers Publ., 1997. 320 p.
  • Botton A. de. The Architecture of Happiness: The Secret Art of Furnishing Your Life. London, Penguin books Publ., 2007. 280 p.
  • Boyarsky A. Chicago à la carte. Architectural Digest, 1970, December, no. 7–6. 48 p.
  • Boyarsky A. Forward. Architecture and Continuity. Kentish Town Projects 1978–1981. Diploma Unit 1. London, Architectural Association Publ., 1982, p. 3.
  • Carl P. Preface. Architecture and Continuity. Kentish Town Projects 1978–1981. Diploma Unit 1. London, Architectural Association Publ., 1982, pp. 6–7.
  • Chost Dance Times, 1974, 18 October.
  • Clip-kit: Studies in Environmental Design. London, Architectural Association Publ., 1966.
  • Colomina B. Privacy and Publicity. Modern Architecture as Mass Media. Cambridge, MIT Press Publ., 1994. 389 p.
  • Constant Nieuwenhuys. New Urbanism. Provo, 1966, no. 9, pp. 2–6.
  • Cook P. Art Has Returned. Spirit and Invention, Themes II. Exhibition Сatalogue. London, Architectural Association Publ., 1982, pp. 4–7.
  • Crinson M. Neo-Avant-Garde and Postmodern. Postwar Architecture in Britain and Beyond. London, Yale Center for British Art Publ., 2010. 420 p.
  • Debord G. Théorie de la derive. Internationale Situationniste, 1958, no. 2, pp. 251–257 (in French).
  • Eyck A. van. The Child and the City. Ledermann A.; Trachsel A. (eds.). Creative Playgrounds and Recreation Centers. New York, Frederick A. Praeger Publ., 1959, pp. 34–37.
  • Focus, 1938, no. 1, summer. London, Percy Lund Humphries & Co Ltd. 32 p.
  • Gowan J. A Continuing Experiment: Learning and Teaching at the Architectural Association. London, Architectural Press Publ., 1975. 175 p.
  • Gurevich Ya. Kategorii srednevekovoi kul’tury (The Categories of Medieval Culture). Moscow, Iskusstvo Publ., 1972. 318 p. (in Russian).
  • Hertzberger H. Lessons for Students in Architecture. Rotterdam, 010 Publ., 2001. 272 p.
  • Heyen H. Architecture and Modernity: A Critique. Cambridge, MIT Press Publ., 2000. 265 p.
  • Ibelings H. De moderne jaren vijftig en zestig: De verspreiding van een eigentijdse architectuur over Nederland. Rotterdam, NAI Uitgevers Publ., 1996. 136 p. (in Dutch).
  • Jacobs J. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York, Modern library books edition Publ., 1993. 598 p.
  • Jencks С. Can Architecture Affect Your Health. ArtEZ Press Sikkens Foundation Publ., 2012. 64 p.
  • Jencks С. Modern Movements in Architecture. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books Publ., 1973. 448 p.
  • Koolhaas R. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. New York, Oxford University Press Publ., 1978. 320 p.
  • Laugier M.-A. Observations sur l’architecture. 1765. Réédition de Geert Bekart. Liège, P. Mardaga Publ., 1979. 325 p. (in French).
  • Leatherbarrow D.; Mostafavi M. On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press Publ., 1993. 139 p.
  • Lopez R. S. The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950–1350. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press Publ., 1971. 177 p.
  • Lynch K. Good City Form. Cambridge, MIT Press Publ., 1984. 514 p.
  • Malich K. A. The Influence of Utopian Ideas on the Architectural Practice of the Era of Reconstruction in the Netherlands. 1940–1960s. Vestnik Sankt-peterburgskogo universiteta (St. Petersburg University Herald. Ser. 15), 2013, no. 4, pp. 109–118 (in Russian).
  • Malich K. Dutch Functionalism in 1940–1960s and the Romanticism Tradition of Modernism. Iskusstvoznaniie (Art Studies), 2016, no. 1–2, pp. 502–525 (in Russian).
  • Mallgrave H. F. Modern Architectural Theory: a Historical Survey, 1673–1968. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press Publ., 2009. 522 p.
  • Marjonovic I. Postcards and the Making of Architectural History: The Case of the Alvin Boyarsky and Rem Koolhaas. 92nd ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Archipelagos: Outposts of the Americas. New York, 2004, pp. 572–573.
  • Molnar V. Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Formation in Postwar Central Europe. New York; London, Routledge Publ., 2013. 224 p.
  • Mostafavi M. Ecological Urbanism. Zurich, Lars Müller Publ., 2015. 656 p.
  • Nevlyutov M. Performativity of Architecture in Phenomenological Concepts by David Leatherbarrow. Architecture and Modern Information Technologies — AMIT, 2018, no. 1 (42), pp. 178–186 (in Russian).
  • Oxman R. The New Structuralism — Design, Engineering and Architectural Technologies. Academy Press Publ., 2010. 136 p.
  • Pendlebury J. Conservation in the Age of Consensus. Oxford, Routledge Publ., 2008. 264 p.
  • Perec G. Things: A Story of the Sixties. Boston, David R. Godine Publ., 1990. 224 p.
  • Risselada М. Past Modernism: Three Moments in Postwar Dutch Architecture. Rotterdam, NAI Uitgevers Publ., 1999. 4 kranten in map.
  • Rossiaud J. Le citadin. Le Goff J. (dir.). L’homme medieval. Paris, Le Seuil Publ., 1989, pp. 159–200 (in French).
  • Sadler S. The Situationist City. Cambridge, MIT Press Publ., 1998. 223 p.
  • Sassen S. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton, Princeton University Press Publ., 2001. 447 p.
  • Solomon S. American Playgrounds: Revitalizing Community Space. Hanover, NH, University Press of New England Publ., 2005. 251 p.
  • Spirit and Invention. Exhibition Catalogue. London, Architectural Association Publ., 1982. 96 p.
  • Sterken S. Architecture and the Ideology of Productivity: Four Public Housing Projects by Groupe Structures in Brussels (1950–1965). Footprint: The European Welfare State Project: Ideals, Politics, Cities and Buildings. 2011, pp. 25–39.
  • Street Farmer (AA Student Journal). London, Bruce Haggart and Peter Crump Publ., 1971–1972. 16 p.
  • Valena T.; Avermaete T.; Vrachliotis G. Structuralism Reloaded: Rule-Based Design in Architecture and Urbanism. Stuttgart; London, A. Menges Publ., 2011. 391 p.
  • Sunwoo I. From the ‘Well-Laid Table’ to the ‘Marketplace:’ The Architectural Association Unit System. Journal of Architectural Education 65, no. 2 (2012), pp. 24–41.
  • Tafuri M. Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1976. 184 p.
  • Middleton R. The Idea of the City: Architectural Associations. London, Architectural Association Publ., 1996. 238 p.
  • Van Schalk L. Practical Poetics in Architecture. London, Academy Editions Publ., 2002.
  • Venturi R. Complexity and Construction in Architecture. New York, MoMA Publ., 1977. 132 p.
  • Virilio P. Esthétique de la disparition. Paris, Éditions Galilée Publ., 1989. 126 p. (in French).
  • Wigley M. Architecture after Philosophy: Le Corbusier and the Emperor’s New Paint. Philosophy and Architecture, Journal of Philosophy and Visual Arts, no. 1. London, Academy Editions Publ., 1990. 278 p.