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Stanley Mathews Talk: Cedric Price and the Architecture of Complexity
Event starts:
19 May 2011 17:00
Event ends:
19 May 2011 19:00
Location
Gallery 5, Level 5, The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow G1 3NU
To celebrate the Cedric Price: Think the Unthinkable exhibition, Architecture + Design Scotland and the University of Strathclyde are holding the second in a series of free talks and discussions on Price’s work and legacy.
Stanley Mathews is Professor of Architecture at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. He is one of the leading scholars on Cedric Price, and the author of the leading monograph on the Fun Palace and Thinkbelt schemes, From Agit-Prop to Free Space: The Archiecture of Cedric Price (Black Dog, 2007)
The talk will be followed by a chance to see the exhibition 'Cedric Price: Think the Unthinkable', designed by Nord with Graphical House, and curation by Dr Barnabas Calder.
Please RSVP to lynne.cox@ads.org.uk to book a place.
The Cedric Price: Think the Unthinkable exhibition is currently on display in gallery 2 on level 2 of the Lighthouse. Further details on the exhibition and a recording of the previous panel discussion can be found in the projects section of this website.
Headline image credits: Cedric Price Potteries Thinkbelt North Staffordshire England. Perspective sketch of transfer area, 1966, gelatin silver print of photomontage, 24.4 x 47.5cm. Cedric Price fonds, Canadian
Centre for Architecture, Montreal.