the city, seen as a garden of ideas by peter cook
the city, seen as a garden of ideas is a survey of 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, and santa monica, this volume also functions as an informal memoir, at once lyrical and trenchant, in which cook reveals the influences and motivations behind his seminal works and recent projects. included among the projects are housing at lutzowplatz, berlin; the winning competition design for the museum at bad deutsches altenberg, austria (both in collaboration with christine hawley); and the winning competition design for the kunsthaus, a museum in graz, austria (in collaboration with colin fournier). finally, a collection of projects and texts created especially for this monograph completes this compelling presentation of cook's work.

240 pages, 10 x 10 inches, 200 illustrations, 100 in color, hardcover