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These projects bear close affinity to ones previously mentioned but abstract the idea of a framework to its tectonic level that bears resonance with my own design process. The Fun Palace is a utopian logic (though he is explicitly not a utopian architect), which is applied to contexts in a prototypical fashion. A degree of reality is always maintained while envisioning these spaces as evidenced by his formal aesthetic. The idea of a module permeates the totality of his work, but is possibly most explicit in the Generator project which applies its potential logics to the topic of housing and community. clusters, direct environment, and density were able to be easily taken on through the use of this module. By creating a spatial differentiation of density and loose programmatic uses, he believed the environment would produce “generative� action, creating sense of place through the production of an active society.
cedric price - fun palace - 1961
cedric price - generator - 1976