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Cedric Price Architects has been based in London since 1960 but the office's projects and proposals have been implemented around the world. Price resists all traditional architectural boundaries and prefers to delight in questioning the impact of time on the built environment. He approaches his subject with keenness and reserve, wit and seriousness, "action and inaction".
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INTRODUCTION The Creative Iconoclast David Allford; A Philosophy of Enabling Royston Landau;Plus ca change...Peter Murray.
ACTION and inactionLife-Condition C.P.; Potteries Thinkbelt; Atom; Phun City; Air Structures/ Trucksafe/Airportable; Zoo Aviary.
TIME and timingThe Case against Conservation C.P; Non-Plan; Clyde Competition; McAppy; Birmingham & Midland Institute HQ; British Airports Authority Office; Westminster Pier; Pop-Up parliament; He and His 'How?' Warren Chalk: Steel Housing; Game-Keeper's Cottage; Manor Farm/Selsdon House.
UNCERTAINTY and delight in the unknownECHOES C.P.; Fun Palace; Inter-Action Centre; Cedric Price: a Private View Robin Middleton; Oxford Corner House; Detroit Thinkgrid; South Bank; Munich Olympic Village; Parc de la Villette; National Gallery Extension.
BENEFICAL CHANGE and inevitable ageingExpediency C.P.; Southend Roof; Hair Tent; Abu Dhabi Breakwater/Air Structures Research; B-Air; Westpen; Cedric Price Precisely Ranulph Glanville; Blackpool Restaurant; BTDB Computer Centre; CP Aviary; Two-Tree Island; Claverton Dome.
FREE-SPACE and its operational matrixPublic Spaces and Private Spaces C.P.; Generator; The price is Right Reyner Banham; Greenbird; DOM Offices; Robert Fraser Gallery; Worthing Pavilion; Castel House; On one occasion the white collar was loosened Peter Cook.
CHRONOLOGYBiography; Bibliography; Articles by Cedric Price; Bibliography; Selected References to Major Projects; Chronology; Members of Office 1960-84 and Major Consultants.
