Cedric Price
• Montage: "Pull quote on perspective", Cedric Price, 'FAX to IFCCA Prize Coordinator', 14 January 1999. [1] [2]
Cedric Price gave two reasons for his "own nomination and extreme interest in participation in the IFCCA project", namely:—
- ... because it is singular, if not unique, in recognising, in architectural terms, the necessity for anticipation of social change in community and the individual, and in the constructive response of the built environment; and
- ... because it assumes that not only is the 'city' likely to remain a humane container but that architecture is still deemed as a key participant.
Cedric Price also identified a need. namely:—
- The need to equate the involvement of Human aspirations with the form, movement and ' 'life' span of the Inanimate is still an incomplete equation which requires continuous updating. [3]
This Table indicates a range of urban planning and design projects by Cedric Price.
[edit] Fun Palace"... a short-life public urban skill and delight 'toy' for random usage by all on a riverside site." |
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[edit] South Bank"... required by the City Authority to be revitalised improving access, communications and accommodation for an ever changing world clientele. |
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[edit] Potteries Thinkbelt"Change occurs constantly in learning requiring an alternative to university, employing varying means of exchange in the industrial U.K. Midlands ... " |
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[edit] Generator"... enabled individual and groups activities to be realised and changed by both computer and machine means." |
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[edit] Stratton"The Rhine crossing at Strasbourg provided an opportunity for re-using redundant docklands with realigned rail (T.G.V.) and roadways in both countries while industries and housing could enrich the existing centres of learning." |
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[edit] Magnet"... located in and around Central London and invest city movement not only with convenience but also Delight." |
[edit] Notes
[1] Cedric Price (1999) 'FAX to IFCCA Prize Coordinator', 14 January.
[2] Cedric Price (1999) 'perspective view looking east from the Hudson River', CCA.
[3] According to the Canadian Centre for Architecture:—
- "[Cedric Price] worked from the premise that in order to establish a valid equation between contemporary social aspirations and architecture, it is essential to add to the latter "Doubt, Delight, and Change," as design criteria."
- (CCA, 2009, 'Cedric Price fonds').
[edit] References
[edit] Further Reading
Wikipedia (2023) 'Social change', 16 March.
--Archiblog 16:30, 27 Mar 2023 (BST)
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