![]() ![]() I chose that route.īut it was in part because I got some really good advice, and I often try to tell this advice to younger folks who are interested in architecture as well. But then there was also getting an undergraduate degree in-something, then going to graduate school and getting a Master of Architecture. At the time, there was the Bachelor of Architecture program route, the five-year professional degree route. So I started thinking about different programs that were out there. ![]() I developed that interest so much so that I thought going into applying for colleges, that I actually thought that, okay, I want to be an 3:00architect. I got interested in the subject of architecture, largely, in many ways, through both of my parents, but also through my grandfather-my father's father. I didn't draw a lot as a young kid but I started drawing more and more as I got more interested in the subject of architecture. ![]() Margaret Huang: I read that in your undergraduate time that you were in a Visual and Environmental Studies program, so if you weren't that into the drawing and that stuff, how did you ultimately choose that program and how did that influence your career as an architect? Did a little drawing on the side, but I was not one of those persons 2:00who just had a pencil and was sketching all the time. Played tennis and all that sort of stuff. I loved playing baseball and just getting outside. But if I'm being truthful, my biggest hobbies were playing baseball. Through a family connection, my father landed a job here and so, "Honey, pack the bags, we're heading to Pontiac, Michigan." That's in many ways, how we ended up in Detroit.īut in terms of hobbies and such, I think most architects would probably answer that question by saying, "Oh, I loved to draw." Or, "I loved to paint." And I did. My father had a law degree from Georgetown University, and at the time, people were not even interviewing, let alone hiring, African American attorneys. And the answer was they actually came out in-I 1:00think it was the mid-50s-actually not even to Detroit but to Pontiac, Michigan, in part, because of segregation in this country. I asked them, in part, "how did you make it out to Detroit?". Both of my parents grew up in Washington D.C. But I have a long, long, long family history in Washington D.C. Peter Cook: That's correct, I did grow up in Detroit. Margaret Huang: What were some of your hobbies or interests when you were growing up? Did you mostly grow up in Detroit? Born, not quite on the fourth of July, but July 8th in 1963. Could you please state your full name, when and where you were born? Margaret Huang: This is Margaret Huang, the Martha Hamilton Morris archivist at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, interviewing Peter Cook for the archives oral history program. ![]()
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