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Around the B-World in 8 Hours – with Sir Peter Cook
24 June 2020
A new online series featuring Sir Peter Cook connecting The Bartlett to friends around the world.
Hosted by Max Dewdney and featuring Sir Peter Cook, founder of Archigram and former Chair of The Bartlett School of Architecture, this series connects our school community to leaders in architecture around the world. These events have been developed out of an exclusive series of talks for Architecture BSc Year 1 (2019-20) students.
All are welcome to attend.
Schedule
15 May
10:00 (BST): Peter Cook Goes East – Melbourne, Australia
Peter talks to Professor Martyn Hook (Dean of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT University, Partner of Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects) and Dr Fleur Watson (Curator of RMIT Design Hub Gallery, Melbourne and Past Editor of ‘Monument’ magazine).
18:00 (BST): Peter Cook Goes West – Los Angeles, USA
Peter talks to Thomas Mayne (SCI-Arch, Principle of Morphosis, Winner of the 2005 Pritzker Prize and the 2013 AIA Gold Medal).
29 May
10:00 (BST): Peter Cook Goes East – Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
Peter talks to Wang Shu (Dean of the School of Architecture of the China Academy of Art , Pritzker Prize 2012, Schelling Architecture Award 2010, Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor at the Harvard Design School, RIBA International Fellowship) and Lu Wenyu, (Co-founder of Amateur Architecture Studio, Schelling Architecture Award 2010, visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and past Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design).
18:00 (BST): Peter Cook Goes West – Los Angeles, USA
Peter talks to Neil Denari, FAIA, (Principal of Neil M. Denari Architects, winner of the AIA-LA Gold Medal 2011, Professor of Architecture at UCLA, past Director of SCI-Arc 1997-2002).
12 June
10:00 (BST): Peter Cook Goes East – Tokyo, Japan
Peter talks to Sou Fujimoto, leading Japanese architect and author of Primitive Future (2008). Sou won first prize at the 2014 International Competition for the Second Folly of Montpellier, France ("L'Arbre Blanc"). In 2019, he was selected as the Master Architect for Tsuda University Kodaira Campus Master Plan development. His significant works include the Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo (2010) and the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London (2013).
18:00 (BST): Peter Cook Goes West – New York, USA
Peter talks to Elizabeth Diller, Partner at Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) and Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University. DS+R's significant work in New York includes the High Line, the Lincoln Center, The Shed and the expansion of the Museum of Modern Art. She is currently leading the design of the Centre for Music and the V&A East Collection and Research Centre in London.
26 June
10:00 (BST): Peter Cook Goes East – Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
Peter talks to Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu in Hangzhou, China. Wang Shu is Dean of the School of Architecture of the China Academy of Art and Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor at the Harvard Design School. He previously received the Pritzker Prize 2012, Schelling Architecture Award 2010 and holds a RIBA International Fellowship. Lu Wenyu is co-founder of Amateur Architecture Studio and is a Visiting Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She also received a Schelling Architecture Award in 2010 and holds a RIBA International Fellowship.
This talk has been pre-recorded and will be streamed at 10:00 on Friday 26 June.
18:00 (BST): Peter Cook Goes West – Chicago, USA
Peter talks to Jeanne Gang in Chicago. Jeanne is the founder and leader of Studio Gang, an architecture and urban design practice with offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Paris. She is currently a Professor in Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), and she has also served as the John Portman Design Critic in Architecture and a visiting critic at the GSD. Jeanne lectures frequently throughout the world and in 2016, she presented at the TEDWomen conference.
This talk will be live-streamed at 18:00 on Friday 26 June.