About Cedric Price: Cedric Price was an English architect and influential teacher and writer on architecture.
I think I have said enough.
For me, it does not 'miss' if (the Potteries Thinkbelt study) goes into the archive, not as an example of how railway carriages can be used for teaching, but as one of the most powerful question marks ever placed against the architecture of universit...
Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.
A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.
Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.
...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller
(Cedric Price produced the Potteries Thinkbelt) ...project which questioned most of the cherished establishment premises of university education and substituted in their place their complete inversion.
Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.
...the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.
Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.
C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process.
