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{{Short description|English architect}} {{for|the British Army officer|Cedric Rhys Price}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}} {{Use British English|date=April 2017}} {{Infobox person | name = Cedric Price | honorific_suffix = [[FRIBA]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|9|11|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Stone, Staffordshire|Stone]], [[Staffordshire]], England | death_date = {{Death date and age|2003|8|10|1934|9|11|df=y}} | death_place = [[London]], England | occupation = [[Architect]] | alma_mater = [[St John's College, Cambridge]]<br>[[Architectural Association School of Architecture]] | partner = [[Eleanor Bron]] (?–2003; his death) }} '''Cedric Price''' [[Royal Institute of British Architects|<small>FRIBA</small>]] (11 September 1934 – 10 August 2003) was an English [[architect]] and influential teacher and writer on architecture. == Early life and education == The son of the architect A.G. Price, who worked with [[Harry Weedon]],<ref name="Indie">{{cite news|title=Cedric Price: Architect-thinker who built little but whose influence was talismanic|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/cedric-price-36932.html|accessdate=18 April 2016|work=Independent|date=13 August 2003}}</ref> Price was born in [[Stone, Staffordshire]]. He studied [[architecture]] at [[St John's College, Cambridge]], graduating in 1955, and the [[Architectural Association School of Architecture]] (AA) in [[London]], where he encountered and was influenced by the modernist architect and urban planner [[Arthur Korn (architect)|Arthur Korn]].<ref name="gobit01">Melvin J. 2003. '[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2003/aug/15/urbandesign.artsobituaries Obituary: Cedric Price, Hugely creative architect ahead of his time in promoting themes of lifelong learning and brownfield regeneration]'. ''The Guardian'', 15 August 2003.</ref> From 1958 to 1964 he taught part-time at the AA and at the [[Council of Industrial Design]]. He later founded ''Polyark'', an architectural schools network. == Career == After graduating, Price worked briefly for [[Erno Goldfinger]], [[Denys Lasdun]], the partnership of [[Maxwell Fry]] and [[Jane Drew]], and applied unsuccessfully for a post at [[London County Council]], working briefly as a professional illustrator before starting his own practice in 1960.<ref name="Indie" /> He worked with [[Lord Snowdon|The Earl of Snowdon]] and [[Frank Newby]] on the design of the [[Snowdon Aviary]] at [[London Zoo]] (1961).<ref name="UWestminster">{{cite web|title=The Architecture and Engineering of The Snowdon Aviary at London Zoo.|url=https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/images/1/11/Cedric_Price.pdf|publisher=University of Westminster, Department of Architecture|accessdate=6 October 2017}}</ref> He later also worked with [[Buckminster Fuller]] on the ''Claverton Dome''. One of his more notable projects was the East London [[Fun Palaces|Fun Palace]] (1961),<ref name="Mathews">{{cite journal|last1=Mathews|first1=S|title=The Fun Palace as Virtual Architecture: Cedric Price and the Practices of Indeterminacy|journal=Journal of Architectural Education|date=11 January 2006|volume=59|pages=39–48|doi=10.1111/j.1531-314X.2006.00032.x|s2cid=110328304}}<!--|accessdate=18 April 2016--></ref> developed in association with theatrical director [[Joan Littlewood]] and [[Cybernetics|cybernetician]] [[Gordon Pask]].<ref name="DTelegraph" /> Although it was never built, its flexible space influenced other architects, notably [[Richard Rogers]] and [[Renzo Piano]] whose [[Centre Georges Pompidou]] in [[Paris]] extended many of Price's ideas – some of which Price used on a more modest scale in the [[Inter-Action Centre]] at [[Kentish Town]], [[London]] (1971).<ref name="gobit01" /> Having conceived the idea of using architecture and education as a way to drive economic redevelopment—notably in the north Staffordshire [[Stoke-on-Trent|Potteries]] area (the 'Think-Belt' project)—he continued to contribute to planning debates. Think-Belt (1963–66) envisaged the reuse of an abandoned railway line as a roving "higher education facility", re-establishing the Potteries as a centre of science and technology. Mobile classroom, laboratory and residential modules could be moved grouped and assembled as required.<ref name="DTelegraph">{{cite news|title=Cedric Price|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1438827/Cedric-Price.html|accessdate=18 April 2016|work=Daily Telegraph|date=15 August 2003}}</ref> In 1969, with planner [[Sir]] [[Peter Hall (urbanist)|Peter Hall]] and the editor of ''New Society'' magazine [[Paul Barker (writer)|Paul Barker]], he published ''Non-plan'', a work challenging planning orthodoxy. In 1984, Price proposed the redevelopment of London's [[South Bank]], and foresaw the [[London Eye]] by suggesting that a giant [[Ferris wheel]] should be constructed by the [[River Thames]]. == Personal life and death == Price was the partner of the actress [[Eleanor Bron]]. They had no children.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Muschamp |first=Herbert |date=2003-08-23 |title=Cedric Price, Influential British Architect With Sense of Fun, Dies at 68 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/23/us/cedric-price-influential-british-architect-with-sense-of-fun-dies-at-68.html |access-date=2023-01-24 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Price died in London, aged 68, in 2003.<ref name=":0" /> == Recognition == In 2002, Price was awarded the [[Frederick John Kiesler#Legacy|Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.kiesler.org/en/kiesler-prize-2002 | title=Kiesler Prize 2002 | date=4 February 2018 }}</ref> ==References== '''Notes''' {{Reflist}} '''Further reading''' * Hardingham, Samantha (2016) ''[http://cedricpriceworks.com/ Cedric Price Works 1952–2003: A Forward-Minded Retrospective] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191124045023/http://cedricpriceworks.com/ |date=24 November 2019 }}'' a two-volume anthology, co-published by the [[Architectural Association]] (AA) and the [[Canadian Centre for Architecture]] (CCA) * Bron, Eleanor and Hardingham, Samantha, eds. (2005) [https://web.archive.org/web/20081202060546/http://www.iniva.org/publications_shop/artist_focused/cedric_price ''Annotations: v. 7: CP Retriever''], Institute of International Visual Arts (INIVA), London * Hardingham, Samantha (2003) ''Cedric Price: Opera'', London: John Wiley & Sons, London. * Hardingham, Samantha and Rattenbury, Kester, eds. (2007) ''Cedric Price: Potteries Thinkbelt''. London: Routledge. {{ISBN|978-0-415-43412-6}} * Hughes, Jonathan and [[Simon Sadler|Sadler, Simon]], eds. (2000) ''Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism''. Oxford: Architectural Press. {{ISBN|9780750640831}} * [[Herbert Muschamp|Muschamp, Herbert]] (15 August 2003) [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/23/us/cedric-price-influential-british-architect-with-sense-of-fun-dies-at-68.html "Cedric Price, Influential British Architect With Sense of Fun, Dies at 68" (obituary)] ''[[The New York Times]]'' * Price, Cedric (1984) ''Cedric Price: Works II'', [[Architectural Association School of Architecture|Architectural Association]]; republished in 2003 as ''Cedric Price: The Square Book''. London: Wiley-Academy, London. * Staff (ndg) [https://web.archive.org/web/20060517080734/http://www.designmuseum.org/design/index.php?id=92 "Cedric Price"] [[Design Museum]] * Staff (22 August 2003) [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article881286.ece "Cedric Price, A leading light of the 'megastructure' movement whose work was guided by amusing and inspirational ideas" (obituary)]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}. ''[[The Times]]'' ==External links== * Finding aid for the [https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/archives/380477/cedric-price-fonds Cedric Price fonds] at the [[Canadian Centre for Architecture]] [https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/search?digigroup=380477 (digitized items)] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Price, Cedric}} [[Category:People from Stone, Staffordshire]] [[Category:1934 births]] [[Category:2003 deaths]] [[Category:20th-century English architects]] [[Category:Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge]] [[Category:Alumni of the Architectural Association School of Architecture]] [[Category:Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects]] [[Category:Architects from Staffordshire]]
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