Cedric Price Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
September 11, 1934 – August, 10, 2003.

Cedric Price FRIBA was an English architect and influential teacher and writer on architecture. The son of an architect (A.G. Price, who worked with Harry Weedon), Price was born in Stone, Staffordshire and studied architecture at Cambridge University (St John's College - graduating in 1955) and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, where he encountered, and was influenced by, the modernist architect and urban planner Arthur Korn.

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Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

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- Technology
- Answer
Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

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Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

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...the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.

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...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller

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C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process.

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- Design
- Process
- Product
Architecture is slow and therefore requires anticipatory design.

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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.

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Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

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I think I have said enough.

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- Enough
Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.

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