ABSTRACT
I remember confusing my accountant Howard Reuben, somewhere around 1988, conveniently logged as ‘Peter Cook, academic and writer’, confessing that I hadn’t written anything for over a year, but was now receiving fees for designing something. Such switches are a mixture of chance and the fact that many activities are slow burners, with even slower conclusions. Yet Archigram was so easily identifiable from the outside and its link into academe so convenient that a real rolling agenda was often hidden. Wanting to contribute to architecture every way possible: by writing, talking, evangelism, creating examples – through drawing – and ultimately, building. Drawings as coercion towards building, buildings as constructed experiments, writing and talking, setting the scene.
