The city, seen as a garden of ideas / Peter Cook.

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Cook, Peter.

Title & Author:

The city, seen as a garden of ideas / Peter Cook.

Publication:

Description:

188 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
City of incidents -- City of atmospheres -- City of paths, layers, and rooms -- City of surprise -- City of inventions -- City of gardens -- City of icons -- City under the trees.

Summary:

"The City, Seen as a Garden of Ideas is a survey of Peter Cook's career-long project to reinvigorate the city as we know it. A series of meditations on contemporary urban conditions in cities as diverse as Tokyo, Edinburgh, Houston, and Santa Monica, this volume also functions as an informal memoir in which Cook reveals the influences and motivations behind his seminal works for Archigram in the 1960s and early '70s, as well as more recent projects such as the biomorphic Kunsthaus, a contemporary-art exhibition space in Graz, Austria (with Colin Fournier). Among the other works featured in this volume are the housing block at Lutzowplatz, Berlin; the competition-winning design for the museum at Bad Deutsches Altenberg, Austria (both in collaboration with Christine Hawley); and Super-Houston, with its self-guided cars and trucks."--Jacket.

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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
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ISBN:

1580931022
9781580931021
1580931081 (pbk.)
9781580931083 (pbk.)

Subject:

Cook, Peter 1936-
Cook, Peter, (1936- ...)
City planning History 20th century.
Urbanisme Histoire 20e siècle.
City planning.
Architektur
Stadtplanung
Städtebau
Stadtgestaltung
Stadtgrün
Bouwkunst.
Stedenbouw.
Villes Recherche.
Idee.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 230685
Call No.: NA44.C771.A35 2003
Status: Available

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