Works 1980–2015 Haig Beck and Jackie Cooper Both Have Formative Links a Sensibility, Some Might Say an Aesthetic
DOSSIER presented with a succession of projects ume Clare Design: Clare Design of varying scales, typologies, methods About the editors Clare Design of procurement and contexts that share Works 1980-2015 Works 1980–2015 Haig Beck and Jackie Cooper both have formative links a sensibility, some might say an aesthetic. Works 1980-2015 Works to Queensland, Australia, but spent many years away before ume returning in 2000. Haig left for England in the late 1960s A newand monograph completed his studies at the Architectural Association explores the most Beck and Cooper call attention to the School in London. During the 1970s, Jackie worked in the AA’s Communications Unit for seven years during the School’s importantmost dazzling period. projects In 1976 Haig was appointed editor by Lindsay and Kerry freshness of each work regardless of its of Architectural Design. In 1979 he and Jackie launched their independent magazine, International Architect, in London. Clare,In 1986and they returned highlights to Australia where they continued the significance of position in the chronology of practice, collaborating as architectural editors, critics, writers and publishers, and in 1996 launched UME magazine. (UME and their workInternational Architect beyond are available as free downloads: Queensland. www.umemagazine.com.) Haig Beck and Jackie Cooper’s joint a resistance to the vagaries of style and output over forty years of writing includes books, chapters, articles and critical reviews, and in particular books on (and with) Glenn Murcutt, Denton Corker Marshall, Lindsay and fashion and the sustained commitment WORDSKerry Clare,Elizabeth Brit Andresen and Peter O’Gorman, Musgrave Architectus, Cox Rayner, Tract Landscape Architects, graphic designer Garry Emery and sculptor Akio Makigawa.
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