Cedric Price
Cedric Price FRIBA (born September 11, 1934 in Stone , Staffordshire , † August 10, 2003 in London ) was a British architect , architecture teacher and specialist author.
Himself the son of an architect, studied Price architecture at St John's College of the University of Cambridge (completion in 1955) and at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London , where he the modernist architect and urban planner Arthur Korn met who influenced him greatly.
From 1958 to 1964 Price taught at the AA and the Council of Industrial Design . He later founded Polyark , a network of architecture schools . As a practicing architect, Price first worked with Maxwell Fry and Denys Lasdun before founding his own office in 1960, where he designed the aviary for the London Zoo with Lord Snowdon and Frank Newby (1961). The Snowdon Aviary has been a listed building since 1998. He later also worked with Buckminster Fuller on the Claverton Dome .
One of his best-known projects was the Fun Palace (1961), developed together with theater director Joan Littlewood . Although it was never realized, its flexible interior design influenced other architects such as Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano , whose Center Georges Pompidou in Paris developed many of Price's ideas. Price himself applied it on a more modest scale at the Inter-Action Center in Kentish Town , London (1971).
Price also came up with the idea for a ferris wheel on the banks of the Thames , which has now been realized in the form of the London Eye .
Price was married to actress Eleanor Bron .
literature
- Samantha Hardingham: Cedric Price: Opera . John Wiley & pSons, London 2003, ISBN 978-0-470-84875-3 .
- Samantha Hardingham and Kester Rattenbury (Eds.): Cedric Price: Potteries Thinkbelt . Routledge (SuperCrit), London 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-43412-6 .
- Eleanor Bron, Samantha Hardingham (Eds.): Annotations: v. 7: CP Retriever . Institute of International Visual Arts (INIVA), London 2005.
- Cedric Price, Cedric Price: Works II , Architectural Association, 1984 - New edition Cedric Price: The Square Book , Wiley-Academy, London 2003
- Jonathan Hughes and Simon Sadler (Eds.): Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism . Elsevier Architectural Press, Oxford 1999, ISBN 0-7506-4083-9 ( reviewed by Joe Kerr, 2000 ).
- Stanley Mathews, The Fun Palace as Virtual Architecture: Cedric Price and the Practices of Indeterminacy , Journal of Architectural Education, 2006. doi : 10.1111 / j.1531-314X.2006.00032.x
Web links
- Cedric Price. In: arch INFORM .
- Cedric Price Archive at the Canadian Center for Architecture
- www.ribabookshops.com
- 'Obituary: Cedric Price, Architect-thinker who built little but whose influence was talismanic'. The Independent, Thursday August 14, 2003.
- 'Obituary: Cedric Price'. The Telegraph, August 14, 2003.
- 'Obituary: Cedric Price, A leading light of the' megastructure 'movement whose work was guided by amusing and inspirational ideas'. The Times, August 22, 2003.
- Muschamp H. 2003. 'Obituary: Cedric Price, Influential British Architect With Sense of Fun, Dies at 68'. The New York Times, August 15, 2003.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Melvin J. Obituary: Cedric Price, Hugely creative architect ahead of his time in promoting themes of lifelong learning and brownfield regeneration . The Guardian , Aug. 15, 2003.
- ↑ www.aaschool.ac.uk
- ^ The Snowdon Aviary: Grade II * listing. In The Architects' Journal. June 18, 1998, accessed August 15, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Price, Cedric |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stone , Staffordshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 2003 |
| Place of death | London |