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Anticipatory Design

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[edit] FOREWORD

  • "I think that the work by architects on anticipatory design - which at the moment is done by scientists and statisticians, demographers, and a certain amount of politicians - will and should move into architecture."
  • Cedric Price (1993) in 'Transcript - Interview of Cedric Price (1)'.


[edit] • Anticipatory Design

  • "I think the most important difference is the 'anticipatory design' - which is my word (sic) - and 'anticipatory design science'. The difference between that is that I am assuming that there is a science involved with various aspects of anticipatory design but my assumption is therefore narrowing it down to relation to systems or products that result from such design. So mine is a narrowing of Bucky's. That's the main point. The comprehensive is as good as you make it. You know we both agree it should be comprehensive. I think that my concept of comprehensive would be limited through lack of comprehensivity (sic) in the Bucky phraseology. [...] Bucky's was fuller but he was - I mean it was more comprehensive but he was interested in a design science. I was assuming there is a design science and just evidencing it in actual objects or systems."
  • Cedric Price (ib.)
• Anticipatory Design • AD: A great little mag!

[edit] • Disaster Planning

• Disaster Planning • Disaster Planning: North Staffs • Disaster Planning: School Buildings

[edit] • Orderings

• Bucky's Ordering • Archiblog's Ordering

[edit] • City Clusters

• City Cluster, City of London • City Cluster, Kit of Parts

[edit] • Cedric Price

• Cedric Price

[edit] • Thinkbelt Studies

• Potteries Thinkbelt • Dukeries Thinkbelt

[edit] • Educational Systems

• ATOM: A generating system designed by Cedric Price • EDUKIT: World Educational System

[edit] • Housing Studies

• Housing Research by Cedric Price • DOMESTIKIT: World-Wide Dwelling Service • Co-operative Housing

[edit] • The Commons

• The Commons • The Commons: Manhattan • The Commons: City of London

[edit] • Generator

• Generator

[edit] • Learning v Commerce

• The Shed

• Hudson Yards: Manhattan

[edit] • Norman Fellows

[edit] Notes

[1] This article was created by Norman Fellows and is a revision of the original article which is archived at:— https://www.academia.edu/115010445/Anticipatory_Design

[2] The original article was a revision of an outline posted on the AD website at:— https://anticipatorydesign.wordpress.com/outline/

[edit] References

Fellows, N. (1993) 'Transcript – Interview of Cedric Price (1)', Google Drive

Fellows, N. (1996) ‘Transcript – Interview of Cedric Price (3) – Extract 1’, Google Drive

Marchbank, P. (2021) Magazines: Architectural Design (AD), pearcemarchbank.com

Velikov, K. (2015) 'Tuning Up the City - Cedric Price's Detroit Think Grid', Journal of Architectural Education, Volume 69, 2015 - Issue 1, p.41.

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