I worked closely with Sir Peter Cook on creating an exhibition installation that evoked a world of architectural possibilities through over 60 drawings submitted to the Summer Exhibition from the mid-1960s to the present day. The display includes fantastical drawings created in the spirit of 1960s avant-garde architectural group Archigram, drawings submitted to competitions, and drawings of realised buildings. Combined, they showed Cook’s insatiable curiosity and keen observation of life, that drive his innovative architectural propositions that challenge convention and imagine new possibilities for buildings and cities.

Cook has submitted works regularly to the Summer Exhibition since the 1960s, seeing it as a valuable opportunity to put architectural ideas in front of a public. His first submission from 1964, a collaboration with the late Theo Crosby RA for Taylor Woodrow Design Group, detailed a proposal for a housing scheme in Fulham. Other early works on display include conceptual ideas such as Sponge Building and Arcadia, and competition proposals for buildings designed with Christine Hawley.

Since his election to the Royal Academy in 2003, Cook has submitted each year. These drawings, models and photographs include buildings now realised, such as projects with Gavin Robotham, CRAB studio, the law faculty for Vienna Business and Economics University, and the School of Architecture at Bond University, Australia.