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The City and the Architecture of Change: The Work and Radical Visions of Cedric Price
Tanja Herdt
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Description for The City and the Architecture of Change: The Work and Radical Visions of Cedric Price
Paperback. Cedric Price is revered as one of the 20th century's most highly original architectural theorists, whose ideas and concepts are much recognised to the present day, and this is the first comprehensive presentation of Prices' radical thinking and his visions. Num Pages: 208 pages, 80 colour. BIC Classification: AMA; AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170. .
For his entire professional life, British architect Cedric Price (1934-2003) reflected on the mechanisation of society and its effect on people's lives. In the 1960s and 1970s Price searched for a new language in modern architecture. His multifaceted, interdisciplinary approach and his sense of humour and self-irony, also with regard to his own profession, lead him into the fields of art and of social and natural sciences. Tanja Herdt's new book on the work and life of Cedric Price for the first time offers a comprehensive demonstration of his architectural concepts and social visions. Herdt focuses on his view ... Read more
For his entire professional life, British architect Cedric Price (1934-2003) reflected on the mechanisation of society and its effect on people's lives. In the 1960s and 1970s Price searched for a new language in modern architecture. His multifaceted, interdisciplinary approach and his sense of humour and self-irony, also with regard to his own profession, lead him into the fields of art and of social and natural sciences. Tanja Herdt's new book on the work and life of Cedric Price for the first time offers a comprehensive demonstration of his architectural concepts and social visions. Herdt focuses on his view ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Park Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
Zurich, Switzerland
ISBN
9783038600459
SKU
V9783038600459
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Ref
99-15
About Tanja Herdt
Tanja Herdt is an architect who works as an urban designer and consultant in Switzerland and lectures at Technical University of Munich. She has obtained her PhD with a dissertation on Cedric Price.
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