PETER COOK BEYOND ARCHIGRAM: TOWARDS A CRITICAL UTOPIANISM

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2020-01-01

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Güneri Söğüt, Gizem Deniz

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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.

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Geography, Planning and Development, Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Urban Studies, Architecture

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/40496

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PROSTOR

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https://doi.org/10.31522/p.28.1(59).8

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G. D. Güneri Söğüt, “PETER COOK BEYOND ARCHIGRAM: TOWARDS A CRITICAL UTOPIANISM,” PROSTOR, pp. 130–141, 2020, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/40496.