The City, Seen as a Garden of Ideas

by Peter Cook

Book Overview

Peter Cook is a founder of Archigram, a collective of six architects known for architecture through drawing. "The City, Seen as a Garden of Ideas" is a survey of Cook's career-long project to reinvigorate the city. A series of mediations on contemporary urban conditions in cities as diverse as Tokyo, Edinburgh, and Santa Monica, this volume also functions as an informal memoir, at once lyrical and trenchant, in which Cook reveals the influences and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580931081
• ISBN13: 9781580931083
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Monacelli Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.0" x 9.9"