Will Price
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<blockquote> '…seems to admit more affinity with construction photos than with images of finished buildings … divisions haven't yet been filled in … leaves openings for life to develop and lets the architect suggest an unpredictable future … The design remains an idea, or a net in which various bits have got lodged like bugs in the radiator grille of a car. Like these insects, the gelled or completed elements of the structure are significant as clues to a process, signs of activity which buildings can't entirely contain. So this work is like a machine not in its strict logic but in its absence of extraneous baggage and its unprogrammatic linkages…' </blockquote>
<p><strong>Image:</strong> <a href=“http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/critic/feature/0,1169,1383921,00.html”>Fawood Children's Centre</a> by Alsop and Partners (photo credit - <a href=“http://www.europaconcorsi.com/db/pub/architecture.php?id_scheda=6008&idimg=45386”>Alan Lai</a>)</p>
<p><strong>Words:</strong> Robert Harbison describing Cedric Price's Interaction Centre in <em><a href=“http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262581701”>Thirteen Ways: Theoretical Investigations in Architecture</a></em>.</p>
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I <a href=“http://rob.annable.co.uk/journal.cgi/architecture/kiss”>attended an Alsop lecture last year</a> and I remember very clearly one of the first things that struck me as he got up to speak. As he headed towards the laptop/rostrum, glass of red wine in hand, before a single image had been shown, I thought to myself <em>'This is what it must have been like to see Cedric Price lecture'</em>.
Moments later he started the lecture by talking about the time he spent working with Cedric Price. Perhaps I was just sub-consciously remembering that connection, but for a moment it seemed like Price was with us again for the evening.
Piers Gough and the rest of the judging panel were wrong. The Fawood Children's Centre should have won <a href=“http://www.architecture.com/go/Architecture/Also/Awards_2006.html”>last year's Stirling Prize</a>.