Cedric Price Quotes

Cedric Price FRIBA was an English architect and influential teacher and writer on architecture.The son of an architect (A.G. Price, who worked with Harry Weedon), Price was born in Stone, Staffordshire and studied architecture at Cambridge University (St John's College – graduating in 1955) and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, where he encountered, and was influenced by, the modernist architect and urban planner Arthur Korn.From 1958 to 1964 he taught part-time at the AA and at the Council of Industrial Design. ...more

Birth: September 11, 1934 - Death: August 10, 2003

Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

Topic(s): Answers , Technology

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

Topic(s): Should , Littles , Problem

Likewise ‘radical’. I’m only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot – and they’re so convinced that they matter.

Topic(s): Matter , Lost , Profession

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

Topic(s): Problem , Architecture , Realisation

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

Topic(s): Environment , Concern , Architecture

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.

Topic(s): Real , Values , Quality

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

Topic(s): Moving , Architecture , Medicine

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Cedric Price Quotes