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From Agit-prop to Free Space

Author : Stanley Mathews
Publisher : Artifice Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781904772521
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book From Agit-prop to Free Space written by Stanley Mathews and published by Artifice Incorporated. This book was released on 2007 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cedric Price proposed radically new concepts of architecture and redefined the ways in which the architect might enhance human life, extend human potential and promote social change. Price perceived architectural possibilities amidst the apparent cultural anarchy of post-war Britain where many pundits and social critics saw only the waning of an old order. Forsaking tradition, he dealt with variable structures, firmly believing in impermanent constructions designed for continual change; that architecture should "enable people to think the unthinkable". From Agit-Prop to Free Space: The Architecture of Cedric Price tells the story of Price's architecture, how his thinking expressed the changing character of life and society, and how his work has shaped architectural discourse today. It focuses specifically on two of Price's major unrealised works. The Fun Palace and The Potteries Thinkbelt. Not buildings in any conventional sense, these two projects were instead socially interactive machines, highly adaptable to the shifting conditions of their time and place. From Agit-Prop to Free Space is the result of extensive research based on vast quantities of unpublished archive material, including letters, memos, notes, drawings and interviews. It paints a portrait of an architect who was a true radical, and who overturned conventional ideas of what architecture means, having a major impact on architecture across the world from Japanese Metabolism to High-Tech.

The City and the Architecture of Change

Author : Tanja Herdt
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
ISBN 13 : 9783038600459
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The City and the Architecture of Change written by Tanja Herdt and published by Park Publishing (WI). This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a broad selection of projects covering a twenty-fi ve-year period, this book provides an overview of cedric Price s work for the fi rst time."

Cedric Price: Potteries Thinkbelt

Author : Kester Rattenbury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100015842X
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Cedric Price: Potteries Thinkbelt by : Kester Rattenbury

Download or read book Cedric Price: Potteries Thinkbelt written by Kester Rattenbury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and design today. Based on live studio debates between protagonists and critics, the books describe, explore and criticise these major projects. This first book in the unprecedented series examines Cedric Price’s groundbreaking Potteries Thinkbelt project from the 1960s, an innovative high-tech educational facility in the North Staffordshire Potteries. Highly illustrated and with contemporary criticism, this is a book not to be missed! In Cedric Price: Potteries Thinkbelt you can hear the architect’s project definition, see the drawings and join in the crit. This innovative and compelling book is an invaluable resource for any architecture student.

Cedric Price - The Square Book

Author : Cedric Price
Publisher : Academy Press
ISBN 13 : 9780470851463
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Cedric Price - The Square Book written by Cedric Price and published by Academy Press. This book was released on 2003-09-19 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cedric Price Architects was established in 1960 and this book features works from its early years - iconic projects such as The Fun Palace and Potteries Thinkbelt, built projects such as London Zoo's Aviary, and many less well-known schemes and writings. Additional essays are contributed by eminent architectural historians Reyner Banham, Royston Landau and Robin Middleton and colleague/critics such as David Allford, Peter Cook and Warren Chalk. The Square Book is a faithful reprinting of an original book entitled Cedric Price: Works II, published in 1984 by the Architectural Association (AA). Ron Herron and AA Chairman Alvin Boyarsky had invited Price to make the book to coincide with an exhibition of the work of his office at the AA in June the same year. Price complied "as a favour" to his dear friends although he has always been resistant to the crystallisation of his work in book form, being more inclined towards the immediate and ephemeral nature of magazines and journals. Price states that "there is a point reached where if too much time is required to produce something its operational integrity is marred." This remark is central to Price's thesis that Time is the fourth dimension in architecture and that Change is its champion. It is timely that such a book should be reprinted. Its purpose is not to provide material upon which to reflect but to serve as fuel to students and practitioners of architecture - a profession that continues to institutionally resist change at the beginning of a new millennium. We are reminded, as Peter Cook writes, that "Cedric is our reference. Our conscience".

Architectural Intelligence

Author : Molly Wright Steenson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262546787
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Architectural Intelligence written by Molly Wright Steenson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architects who engaged with cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and other technologies poured the foundation for digital interactivity. In Architectural Intelligence, Molly Wright Steenson explores the work of four architects in the 1960s and 1970s who incorporated elements of interactivity into their work. Christopher Alexander, Richard Saul Wurman, Cedric Price, and Nicholas Negroponte and the MIT Architecture Machine Group all incorporated technologies—including cybernetics and artificial intelligence—into their work and influenced digital design practices from the late 1980s to the present day. Alexander, long before his famous 1977 book A Pattern Language, used computation and structure to visualize design problems; Wurman popularized the notion of “information architecture”; Price designed some of the first intelligent buildings; and Negroponte experimented with the ways people experience artificial intelligence, even at architectural scale. Steenson investigates how these architects pushed the boundaries of architecture—and how their technological experiments pushed the boundaries of technology. What did computational, cybernetic, and artificial intelligence researchers have to gain by engaging with architects and architectural problems? And what was this new space that emerged within these collaborations? At times, Steenson writes, the architects in this book characterized themselves as anti-architects and their work as anti-architecture. The projects Steenson examines mostly did not result in constructed buildings, but rather in design processes and tools, computer programs, interfaces, digital environments. Alexander, Wurman, Price, and Negroponte laid the foundation for many of our contemporary interactive practices, from information architecture to interaction design, from machine learning to smart cities.

Cedric Price

Author : Cedric Price
Publisher : Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
ISBN 13 : 9783865600936
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Cedric Price written by Cedric Price and published by Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther Konig. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Ulrich Obrist met the great visionary and architectural theorist Cedric Price several times between 1999 and shortly before his death in 2003 and spoke with him about his architectural concepts and most important projects. The result is a spirited and vivid description of Cedric Price's life work. English text.

The Changing of the Avant-garde

Author : Terence Riley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870700040
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing of the Avant-garde written by Terence Riley and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring 165 expertly reproduced visionary architectural drawings from The Museum of Modern Art's Howard Gilman Archive, this collection brings together a selection of idealized, fantastic and utopian architectural drawings.

Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism

Author : Jonathan Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135142653
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Book Synopsis Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism by : Jonathan Hughes

Download or read book Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism written by Jonathan Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-Plan explores ways of involving people in the design of their environments - a goal which transgresses political categories of 'right' and 'left'. Attempts to circumvent planning bureaucracy and architectural inertia have ranged from free-market enterprise zones, to self-build housing, and from squatting to sophisticated technologies of prefabrication. Yet all have shared in a desire to let people shape the built environment they want to live and work in. How can buildings better reflect the needs of their inhabitants? How can cities better facilitate the work and recreation of their many populaces? Modernism had promised a functionalist approach to resolving the architectural needs of the twentieth-century, yet the design of cities and buildings often appears to confound the needs of those who use them - their design and layout being highly regulated by restrictive legislation, planning controls and bureaucracy. Non-Plan considers the theoretical and conceptual frameworks within which architecture and urbanism have sought to challenge entrenched boundaries of control, focusing on the architectural history of the post-war period to the present day. This provocative book will be of interest to architects, planners and students of architecture, design, town-planning and architectural history. Its contributors include architects, critics and historians, including many whose work helped shape the Non-Plan debate during the period. List of contributors: Cedric Price, Benjamin Franks, Elizabeth Lebas, Eleonore Kofman, Ben Highmore, Yona Friedman, Paul Barker, Clara Greed, Barry Curtis, Colin Ward, Ian Horton, John Beck, Chinedu Umenyilora and Malcolm Miles.

Cedric Price Retriever

Author : Eleanor Bron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899846429
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Cedric Price Retriever written by Eleanor Bron and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Useful for students and artists, this book features introductions to some of the issues at the heart of critical debate. The time-based interventions of radical British architect Cedric Price earned him legendary status. This publication provides an insight into the preoccupations of one of Britain's leading architects and thinkers.

Drawing Parallels

Author : Ray Lucas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317148207
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Drawing Parallels written by Ray Lucas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing Parallels expands your understanding of the workings of architects by looking at their work from an alternative perspective. The book focuses on parallel projections such as axonometric, isometric, and oblique drawings. Ray Lucas argues that by retracing the marks made by architects, we can begin to engage more directly with their practice as it is only by redrawing the work that hidden aspects are revealed. The practice of drawing offers significantly different insights, not easily accessible through discourse analysis, critical theory, or observation. Using James Stirling, JJP Oud, Peter Eisenman, John Hejduk, and Cedric Price as case studies, Lucas highlights each architect's creative practices which he anaylses with reference to Bergson's concepts of temporality and cretivity, discussing ther manner in which creative problems are explored and solved. The book also draws on a range of anthropological ideas including skilled practice and enchantment in order to explore why axonometrics are important to architecture and questions the degree to which the drawing convention influences the forms produced by architects. With 60 black-and-white images to illustrate design development, this book would be an essential read for academics and students of architecture with a particular interest in further understanding the inner workings of the architectural creative process.

Architecture Depends

Author : Jeremy Till
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262518783
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Architecture Depends written by Jeremy Till and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Architecture depends—on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book, cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself. Despite the claims of autonomy, purity, and control that architects like to make about their practice, architecture is buffeted by uncertainty and contingency. Circumstances invariably intervene to upset the architect's best-laid plans—at every stage in the process, from design through construction to occupancy. Architects, however, tend to deny this, fearing contingency and preferring to pursue perfection. With Architecture Depends, architect and critic Jeremy Till offers a proposal for rescuing architects from themselves: a way to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Mixing anecdote, design, social theory, and personal experience, Till's writing is always accessible, moving freely between high and low registers, much like his suggestions for architecture itself.

Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture

Author : Nishat Awan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134722567
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture written by Nishat Awan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples from across the globe of how this has been achieved and how it might be achieved in the future. Particularly pertinent in the current economic climate, this book offers the reader new approaches to architectural practice in a changing world. It makes essential reading for any architect, aspiring or practicing.

Houses for Sale

Author : B. J. Archer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Houses for Sale written by B. J. Archer and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech

Author : Todd Gannon
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606065300
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech written by Todd Gannon and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech reassesses one of the most influential voices in twentieth-century architectural history through a detailed examination of Banham’s writing on High Tech architecture and its immediate antecedents. Taking as a guide Banham’s habit of structuring his writings around dialectical tensions, Todd Gannon sheds new light on Banham’s early engagement with the New Brutalism of Alison and Peter Smithson, his measured enthusiasm for the “clip-on” approach developed by Cedric Price and the Archigram group, his advocacy of “well-tempered environments” fostered by integrated mechanical and electrical systems, and his late-career assessments of High Tech practitioners such as Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, and Renzo Piano. Gannon devotes significant attention to Banham’s late work, including fresh archival materials related to Making Architecture: The Paradoxes of High Tech, the manuscript he left unfinished at his death in 1988. For the first time, readers will have access to Banham’s previously unpublished draft introduction to that book.

Cedric's Tail

Author : Amani Uduman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781953458223
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Cedric's Tail written by Amani Uduman and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious cautionary tale that invites readers to experience the joys and frustrations of an unexpected gift--with a surprising solution. What would you do if your birthday wish came true--and now you had a tail? Cedric wishes for a tail on his birthday and is overjoyed when his wish comes true. Having a tail is great! Now Cedric can swing around on trees, help his mom clean up the house twice as fast, and even fight crime! As Cedric gets used to his new limb, though, he realizes that having a tail isn't everything he thought it would be . . . but can he ever go back to being a regular tail-less kid? In this hilarious cautionary tale, Amani Uduman and Agnès Ernoult invite readers to experience the joys and frustrations of an unexpected gift--with a surprising solution.

Marseille Noir

Author : Cédric Fabre
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617753645
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Marseille Noir written by Cédric Fabre and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Navigates the seedy side of Marseille with 14 stories that range from the creepily introspective to the downright brutal.” —Publishers Weekly The Akashic Noir series first ventured into France with Paris Noir—and now moves one step deeper . . . A crossroads for the people of Europe and the Mediterranean, Marseille is a city that does not discriminate. It embodies the down-and-dirty, tough-guy side of France, but what it lacks in sophistication, it makes up for in spirit. Still, in its shadows lurks a not-so-distant darkness . . . one that can be found in stories translated from French by David Ball and Nicole Ball and written by: François Beaune, Philippe Carrese, Patrick Coulomb, Cédric Fabre, René Frégni, Christian Garcin, Salim Hatubou, Rebecca Lighieri, Emmanuel Loi, Marie Neuser, Pia Petersen, Serge Scotto, Minna Sif, and François Thomazeau. “Gritty from east to west, Marseille is the perfect venue for the latest in Akashic’s venerable Noir series. While earlier entries in this 70-volume series have sometimes been bleak and atmospheric, this one is all red meat. . . . Just as Marseille is tailor-made for noir, this dark banquet is tailor-made for noir fans.” —Kirkus Reviews “The stories . . . are united by vivid and evocative writing, as well as by a distinctive take on the city. Another strong entry in a series that should be required reading for crime fans.” —Booklist

MGM Style

Author : Howard Gutner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493038583
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book MGM Style written by Howard Gutner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MGM Style is an overview of the career and achievements of Hollywood’s most famous art director. Cedric Gibbons was the supervisor in charge of the art department at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studios from its inception in 1924 until Gibbons chose to retire in 1956. Lavishly illustrated with over 175 pristine duotone photographs, the vast majority of which have never before been published, this is the first volume to trace Gibbons’ trendsetting career. At its height in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Gibbons was regularly acknowledged by his peers as having shaped the craft of art direction in American film; his work was recognized as representing the finest in motion picture sets and settings. Gibbons and his associates constructed the villages, towns, streets, squares and edifices that later appeared in hundreds of films, and whose mixed architecture stood in for army camps and the wild west, Dutch New York and Dickensian London, ancient China and modern Japan. Inspired by the work of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus masters, as well as the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris and Frank Lloyd Wright’s experiments with open planning, Gibbons championed the notion that movie decor should move beyond the commercial framework of the popular cinema