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Peter Cook: 1960S
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Peter Cook graduated in 1960 from Londons Architectural Association and within a few months had founded the broadsheet Archigram. Within four years this developed into an internationally known and intensively discussed focus point for new ideas. Within another four years, the group of young architects associated with the magazine had created a series of experimental projects that were exhibited and published throughout the world.
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While working in the office of James Cubitt & Partners, Cook was one of the founder members of the influential Archigram group in the 1960s. In 1969 he received a grant from the Graham Foundation for work done with Archigram.
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Cook is, in political comedy, mainly remembered for his early attacks on the complacent, noblesse oblige pomposities of the Macmillan government. In the early 1960s he once described a junior Tory minister ...: 'His arrival in
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