Coinciding with the 60th anniversary of Archigram’s Living City show at the Insititute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), the Cities exhibition is ‘a continuous attempt to extend the vocabulary of my work.’

The exhibition features a site-specific architectural environment and immersive Virtual Reality experience produced especially for the gallery, together with a selection of drawings and paintings that trace Cook’s radical vision. Visitors are therefore ’embraced’ by a new ‘hybrid’, whereby interiors are created from deliberately drawn and image-loaded fragments to evoke reimagined and dismembered cities; cities that climb over themselves to become new forms.

The journey starts from an architectural moment, of the living wall from the world of Peter Cook as a portal. The design of the exhibition eventually attempts to explore a hybrid architecture with drawn worlds — forming a unique interior view of the space to-scale that transcends viewers from distanced observers to participants.