British architect, Professor, writer and founder of Archigram Sir Peter Cook has delivered a special keynote at this year's World Architecture Festival (WAF), which continues with jury crits and lectures in its third day at RAI, Amsterdam.

Addressing a large audience during a lecture at the World Architecture Festival 2018 in the second day of the event, Cook has evaluated recent architectural projects in the backdrop of the North Sea. 

His lecture, titled "Nutters of the North", explored invention and creativity inspired by the backdrop of the North Sea. Cook's session briefly looked at UK, Netherlands, Nordic, Baltic and Belgium architecture from the nineteenth century up to today.

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Cook, 81, is one of founders of an avant-garde and neo-futurist architecture group of Archigram in the 1960s, which created a series of transformative radical proposals. The futuristic movement is best known with The Plug-In City, combining society and technology as a "workable" and a good hybrid.

Sir Peter Cook founded CRAB Studio - literally known as Cook-Robotham Architectural Bureau - with Gavin Robotham in 2006 in London. CRAB Studio recently completed the Drawing Studio, Arts University Bournemouth, England last year. The Drawing Studio was opened to the public with the late Zaha Hadid, just before her unexpected death on March 31, 2016.

Last year, Sir Peter Cook spoke to World Architecture Community in an exclusive interview. Peter Cook was in conversation with Prof. Dr. Abdi Güzer, both an architect and critic, in Arena Berlin. 

World Architecture Festival (WAF), the annual event celebrates its eleventh edition in Amsterdam, from 28-30 November this year, alongside with its sister event INSIDE World Festival of Interiors.

Top image: Peter Cook, courtesy of UCL Bartlett School of Architecture

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