Jul '24 - Aug '24
In February 1966, Cedric Price published a report, namely:—
Copies of the report are held in the Cedric Price fonds, at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), in Montréal, Canada, where they can only be viewed by appointment. They are also unavailable on the CCA website.
Thus the purpose of this blog on the Archinect website is:—
(* Cedric Price's preferred term)
Reference
Fellows, N. (2024) 'Potteries Thinkbelt study', Designing Buildings.
This blog is based on a need identified by Cedric Price, namely:— "to establish a valid equation between contemporary social aspirations and architecture".
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"The story of the Potteries Thinkbelt is salutary. As a brilliantly imaginative contribution to a realm not known for its thoughtfulness, the Potteries Thinkbelt might have jostled the university establishment. But perhaps the critique had too much 'fantasy' for its audience. Or could it be that Cedric Pricewas (to use one of his phrases) just 'aiming to miss'?
For me, it does not 'miss' if this study goes into the archive, not as an example of how railway carriages can be used for teaching, but as one of the most powerful question marks ever placed against the architecture of university education."
(Royston Landau, 1984)
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