Cedric Price
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An essay published at Architectural Critics Association (건축평단 ACA), Spring Issue of 2021
En 1979, la tercera y última Operación Confraternidad inauguró el Programa de Radicación y Erradicación que se extendería durante la siguiente década sobre la ciudad de Santiago. Ese mismo año, la nueva Política Nacional de Desarrollo... more
The essay intends to investigate the question of a new subjectivity in architecture. Form-driven design has become a taboo in contemporary architecture, and the new modernism seeks to shift to experiential and performative qualities in... more
The following audit will examine the Fun Palace (1961) designed by Cedric Price discussing it through the themes of Architecture and Delight, Technology, and the Architectural Profession. (Year 2, Sheffield School of Architecture)
Joan Littlewood blamed anti-socialist prejudice for Theatre Workshop’s hostile treatment by the Arts Council. Yet her failure to secure the Council’s backing for the Fun Palace – an open-ended project for an arts, entertainment, and... more
La significación crítica del Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) de Montreal es decisiva en la interpretación y sistematización de proyectos clave de la arquitectura del s. XX. Uno de estos casos paradigmáticos es el proyecto Fun... more
espanolLa significacion critica del Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) de Montreal es decisiva en la interpretacion y sistematizacion de proyectos clave de la arquitectura del s. XX. Uno de estos casos paradigmaticos es el proyecto... more
Presented and published at the proceedings of the International Conference entitled "Political Imagination and the City" in Santiago, Chile. 7-8 July 2016.
How food shapes our cities: A blue print for a sustainable food and city systems. A través de la perspectiva del alimento, podremos construir ciudades cuyos espacios y actividades pongan de manifiesto la caótica diversidad de nuestras... more
LOBBY Magazine Vol.1. ‘Un/Spectacle’. Autumn 2014. ISSN 2056-2977
In his book, Playing and Reality, child psychologist D.H. Winnicott proposes that an abstract playground exists between two people in a relationship. This potential space, as he calls it, hovers between the inner worlds of an individual’s... more
Este artículo persigue una amplificación de la comprensión de las técnicas de arquitectura, vinculándolas a una “ecología de lo invisible”: la atención prestada a variables cualitativas existentes en el contexto, apenas perceptibles y a... more
The second half of the 60s, that convulsed generator experiences long revisited period, also witnessed a curious phenomenon in Italy that, linked to the American booming nightlife and an intense climate of social emancipation, use these... more
Since around 1980, Ranulph Glanville has put forward the idea that rather than seeing research in design as one form of science, we instead see scientific research as a specific form of design. This argument, based on the way that... more
This paper presents and discusses design studio outcomes developed in response to a studio brief linked to the Fun Palace Futures initiative of the Royal British Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in honour of architect Cedric Price... more
La segunda mitad de los años 60, ese convulso periodo generador de experiencias largamente revisitadas, es testigo también de un curioso fenómeno en Italia que, vinculado al auge de los locales nocturnos en Estados Unidos y a un intenso... more
This paper presents and discusses design studio outcomes developed in response to a studio brief linked to the Fun Palace Futures initiative of the Royal British Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in honour of architect Cedric Price... more
A fictional response to an actual question, by Sean Lally
“If you had $50 million, what would you spend it on? Tell me what we should be doing.”
—Larry Page
“If you had $50 million, what would you spend it on? Tell me what we should be doing.”
—Larry Page
Our concept of ‘nature’ in today’s society is conditioned to promote an idealism found exclusively in the prehuman elements of sun, air and greenery. In reality, the nature of our environments is not inherently clean or green. In an... more