Wednesday 22 February 2012

Cedric Price

Photo: Anil Bawa-Cavia (joanofarctan) on Flickr a-nc

Cedric Price: Think the Unthinkable


Open daily, 10am-7pm until 2nd March

Bartlett School of Architecture, Wates House, 22 Gordon Street London WC1H 0QB

Exhibition website: http://ads.org.uk/ms/access/cedric/index.html

Cedric Price (1934-2003) was an architect who built almost nothing, yet his theories, his teaching, and above all his visions of an alternative society enabled by transient communications technology, have shaped the development of architecture since the 1960s. This exhibition presents Cedric Price’s two most influential schemes of the 1960s. The first is the Fun Palace, a project proposed by Price and radical theatre-director Joan Littlewood as an alternative to the civic theatres, cinemas and recreation centres of the 1950s and 1960s.

The second is Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt, a project which challenged the thinking behind the New Universities which were being built to increase access to higher education in the 1960s. This exhibition puts each of the projects in its historical context, and explains them in Price’s own words and those of his contemporaries.

The exhibition features a series of steel models of the Thinkbelt scheme, as well as film of Price discussing his architecture, and illustrations from his archive in Canada.

The exhibition is curated by Barnabas Calder, University of Strathclyde Department of Architecture, designed by NORD Architects, with graphic design by Graphical House. The exhibition was produced by Architecture + Design Scotland and brought to London by the Bartlett School of Architecture.

Monday 6 February 2012

New E-book titles



Here are the lastest titles available in electronic format which can be accessed anywhere, anytime anyplace...

Planning in the USA: policies, issues, and processes (3rd ed.) / Barry Cullingworth and Roger W. Caves


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Urban Data Management Symposium (25th : 2007 : Stuttgart, Germany) Urban and regional data management : UDMS annual 2007 : proceedings of the Urban Data Management Society Symposium 2007 : Stuttgart, Germany, 10-12 October 2007 / editors, Volker Coors ... [et al.]


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Lessons for the Big Society: planning, regeneration and the politics of community participation / by Bryan Fanning, Denis Dillon


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Alcohol, drinking, drunkeness : (dis)orderly spaces / Mark Jayne, Gill Valentine, Sarah L. Holloway


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Multi-owned housing : law, power and practice / edited by Sarah Blandy, Ann Dupuis, Jennifer Dixon


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Architecture and revolution : contemporary perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe / edited by Neil Leach


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Architecture and revolution : contemporary perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe / edited by Neil Leach


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Architect's drawings : a selection of sketches by world famous architects through history / Kendra Schank Smith

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Twenty buildings every architect should understand / Simon Unwin

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Ethics for the built environment / Peter Fewings

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Building services handbook : incorporating current building & construction regulations (6th ed.) / Fred Hall and Roger Greeno

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Ethics and the built environment / edited by Warwick Fox

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Politics, planning and homes in a world city / Duncan Bowie

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Public places - urban spaces : the dimensions of urban design (2nd ed.) / Mathew Carmona ... [et al.]

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Urban and regional planning (5th ed.) / Peter Hall and Mark Tewdwr-Jones

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Public and private spaces of the city / Ali Madanipour

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Urban planning in Europe : international competition, national systems and planning projects / Peter Newman and Andy Thornley

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Spatial planning and urban development : critical perspectives / Pier Carlo Palermo, Davide Ponzini

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Online research methods in urban and planning studies : design and outcomes / Carlos Nunes Silva [editor]

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Naked city : the death and life of authentic urban places / Sharon Zukin

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