Cedric Price Quotes

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

Cedric Price said: “Technology is the answer. But what is the question?

Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.

I think I have said enough.

Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

(Cedric Price produced the Potteries Thinkbelt) ...project which questioned most of the cherished establishment premises of university education and substituted in their place their complete inversion.

For me, it does not 'miss' if (the Potteries Thinkbelt 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.

Architecture is slow and therefore requires anticipatory design.

...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller

Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process.

...the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.

Nothing good is free, and nothing free is good. You want the world to change, you have to force that change behind gun smoke and lead. Blood is the price, always and ever, if you want to buy freedom.

I feel that the real definition of architecture is that which through a natural distortion of time, place, and interval creates beneficial social conditions that hitherto were considered impossible.

He didn't resent Cedric, but he wished he'd had a son or daughter who came running at the mere sight of you. One who buried their curls in your face and squeezed you for all their worth. Katherine was always his favourite niece.