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Indepth Arts News:
"Cedric Price"
2001-01-17 until 2001-02-23
Institute of International Visual Arts
London, ,
UK
This
is the latest exhibition of drawings by the visionary British
architect Cedric Price whose projects push against the traditional
physical limits of architectural space and map out the trajectories
of time. Since he set up his practice in 1960, his focus on time-based
urban interventions, rather than on finished buildings, has earnt
him heroic status among both contemporary architects and artists.
The
show at inIVA, selected by Hans Ulrich Obrist, will include a
retrospective presentation of Price's Magnet City project,
which comprises a series of short-life structures. Developed throughout
the 1990s and occurring between urban spaces - incorporating stairways,
walkways, elevators, arcades and piers - the function of these
'urban triggers' is not to occupy space, but to stimulate new
patterns and situations of urban movement in the city.
The
exhibition will also address Price's seminal ideas about the urgent
need for museums as places of transitional dialogue and cultural
production, as exemplified by his 1999 project with the Sir John
Soane's Museum in London, which resulted in the production of
personalised badges for museum staff. As the antithesis of the
inflexible institution, Price developed the Fun Palace
project from 1961, a proposal for a building whose lifespan would
be limited to no more than twenty years.
Price's
conviction that buildings should be able to be adapted by the
occupier to serve the needs of the moment reflect his belief that
time - alongside breadth, length and height - is the fourth dimension
of design.
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