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Cedric Price FRIBA (11 September 1934 – 10 August 2003) 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.From 1958 to 1964 he taught part-time at the AA and at the Council of Industrial Design. He later founded Polyark, an architectural schools network. After graduating, Price worked briefly for Erno Goldfinger, Denys Lasdun, the partnership of Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, and applied unsuccessfully for a post at London County Council, working briefly as a professional illustrator before starting his own practice in 1960. He worked with The Earl of Snowdon and Frank Newby on the design of the Aviary at London Zoo (1961). He later also worked with Buckminster Fuller on the Claverton Dome. One of his more notable projects was the East London Fun Palace (1961), developed in association with theatrical director Joan Littlewood and cybernetician Gordon Pask. Although it was never built, its flexible space influenced other architects, notably Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano whose Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris extended many of Price's ideas – some of which Price used on a more modest scale in the Inter-Action Centre at Kentish Town, London (1971).Having conceived the idea of using architecture and education as a way to drive economic redevelopment – notably in the north Staffordshire Potteries area (the 'Thinkbelt' project) – he continued to contribute to planning debates. Think-Belt (1963–66) envisaged the reuse of an abandoned railway line as a roving "higher education facility", re-establishing the Potteries as a centre of science and technology. Mobile classroom, laboratory and residential modules could be moved grouped and assembled as required.In 1969, with planner Sir Peter Hall and the editor of New Society magazine Paul Barker, he published Non-plan, a work challenging planning orthodoxy. In 1984 Price proposed the redevelopment of London's South Bank, and foresaw the London Eye by suggesting that a giant Ferris wheel should be constructed by the River Thames. Price, who was the partner of the actress Eleanor Bron, died in London, aged 68, in 2003.
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Price received both his bachelor and master's degrees in architecture at Cambridge University (MA 1955). He studied at the Architectural Association in London between 1955 and 1957 and received his diploma in 1957. Price received his bachelor degree in Architecture at Cambridge University as well as his master degree in 1955. He studied at the Architectural Association in London from 1955 to 1957 when he received his diploma. Price worked for the partnership of Maxwell Fry, Jane Drew, Lindsay Drake and Denys Lasdun between 1957 and 1958. In 1960 Price established his architectural firm, Cedric Price Architects. In 1969 Price and Frank Newby founded the architectural and engineering consultancy firm Lightweight Enclosures Unit . Price taught at the Architectural Association from 1958 to 1964. He also taught at the Architectural Association at a later date and was still teaching there as of 1995.
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British, English
Gender
Male
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Artist, Architect, Teacher
Names
Cedric Price, Cedric John Price
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