Architect Peter Cook on the Benefits of Drawing by Hand | Louisiana Channel

Subscribe to our channel for more videos on architecture: *There’s a typo at the beginning of the video. Unfortunately, it’s not possible for us to change, but we are aware of the mistake.* “Screw you; it can be built.“ Meet British architect Sir Peter Cook who talks about the possible benefits of drawing by hand and explains why he disagrees with critics calling his architectural ideas utopian. “By the critics and the regular people saying it’s utopian, you put it into a pigeonhole that says: ‘Oh, those sorts of architects are utopian, but we are normal architects.’ So, the delight I get out of doing buildings is to say: Screw you, it can be built.” Peter Cook (b. 1936) grew up in the city of Lester in the latter part of the second world war. The town had a lot of cultural activities, and he accompanied his mother, a frustrated artist, to galleries, operas, and symphony concerts from a very young age. Around the age of eleven, he started reading books about arc
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