PETER COOK BEYOND ARCHIGRAM: TOWARDS A CRITICAL UTOPIANISM

GÜNERİ SÖĞÜT G. D.

PROSTOR, vol.28, no.1, pp.130-141, 2020 (AHCI) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 28 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2020
  • Doi Number: 10.31522/p.28.1(59).8
  • Journal Name: PROSTOR
  • Journal Indexes: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Academic Search Premier, Art Source, Avery, CAB Abstracts, Central & Eastern European Academic Source (CEEAS), Index Islamicus
  • Page Numbers: pp.130-141
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

This text visits and manifests the critical utopianism embedded in the praxis of Peter Cook, within which resides a promising mode of architectural thinking based on reflexive inquiries rather than absolute and closed utopias. It aims to revert questions that link utopia and spatial determinism towards questions that revolve around utopian methodologies that become trainings of architectural imagination.