Re:CP / by Cedric Price ; edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist ; with contributions by Arata Isozaki, Patrick Keiller and Rem Koolhaas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, Cedric.

Contributor:

Obrist, Hans Ulrich.

Isozaki, Arata

Keiller, Patrick.

Koolhaas, Rem.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Price, Cedric.

Architecture--Great Britain--20th century.

Architecture.

Architecture, Modern.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

185 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

Other Title:

ReCP

Place of Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, [2003]

Summary:

Cedric Price has claimed that cooking is a good metaphor for architecture, where design ideas can be developed, constructed -- and given accurate user feedback -- within a single sitting. Now, Price has collected some of his finest architectural recipes in the first publication on his work for almost 20 years.

One of Britain's most influential architectural thinkers, Price has inspired many generations of architects. Among his realised projects are the Interaction Trust Community Centre, London, the Olympic Information Complex for the Munich Olympic Village and an aviary for London Zoo, designed with Lord Snowdon and Frank Newby in 1961.

Price's reputation and influence rest equally, however, on the radicalism of his ideas. He argues against the production of permanent, specific spaces for particular functions and seeks to analyse the motivations that might give rise to a structure in the first place. "Technology is the answer, " he has said, "but what was the question?"

Contents:

The Invisible Sandwich / Cedric Price 11

Price Cuts / Cedric Price 14

Erasing Architecture into the System / Arata Isozaki 25

Interview with Cedric Price / Hans Utrich Obrist

Part 1 Cities 53

Part 2 Museums 63

Part 3 Cybernetics 69

Part 4 Barcelona 76

73 Snacks / Cedric Price 85

London

Rochester

London / Patrick Keiller 169.

Notes:

"Best before 1 May 2006 (by this date the author may have changed his mind)"--Cover.

ISBN:

3764366362

OCLC:

55037419