The unorthodoxy of Cedric Price and his futuristic ideas for Fun Palace have together inundated the world with a visionary and technological outlook on architecture. The kind of research he did into the technologies was very advanced and revolutionary. Whilst he strongly imposed these concepts to be very much a part of everyday life, unfortunately many of these concepts where never built. Although, in saying that, many refer to the Pompidou Centre in Paris as a Cedric Price sketch, this exhibits that he was just a little in front of time in terms of technological advancements. It also acknowledges his importance, as an architect, in the progression of industry.
Arata Isozaki expresses his beliefs on Price's dismantling of architecture. I believe that every decade has to exhibit a 'non-designer' architect in order to continue to create and impose brilliant ideas to the community. Without these kind of designers, architecture begins to become stagnant and lifeless and unable to develop and progress.
Fun Palace (1961), Cedric Price
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