Career
Cook is a director of London's Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, and has been director of Art Net in London and curator of the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. He continues to curate, organise and exhibit around the world: in Seoul, LA and Cyprus, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and Design Museum, London as well as in castles, sheds and garages.
He is a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art, London. Cook’s professorships include those of the Royal Academy, University College, London and the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste (Städelschule) in Frankfurt-Main, Germany. Construction of his arts building, the Kunsthaus Graz (aka 'The Friendly Alien') in Graz, Austria (with Colin Fournier) brought his work to a wider public (he is also involved with construction of the Vienna Business and Economics University’s new law faculty).
Cook has also built in Osaka, Nagoya, Berlin and Madrid. His continuing work as a lecturer takes him to cultural institutions around the world, where many have heard him expound (among other subjects) upon his love affair with the slithering, the swarming and the spooky.
He practices with Gavin Robotham as CRAB studio (Cook Robotham Architectural Bureau), and is married to the Israeli architect, Yael Reisner.
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