Cedric Price - The Square Book (Architectural Monographs Quotes

“Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.”
― Cedric Price, Cedric Price - The Square Book (Architectural Monographs

“Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.”
― Cedric Price, Cedric Price - The Square Book (Architectural Monographs

“Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.”
― Cedric Price, Cedric Price - The Square Book (Architectural Monographs

“A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.”
― Cedric Price, Cedric Price - The Square Book (Architectural Monographs

“For me, it does not 'miss' if (the Potteries Thinkbelt study) goes into the archive, not as an example of how railway carriages can be used for teaching, but as one of the most powerful question marks ever placed against the architecture of university education.”
― Roy Landau, Cedric Price - The Square Book (Architectural Monographs

“...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller”
― Cedric Price, Cedric Price - The Square Book (Architectural Monographs

“(Cedric Price produced the Potteries Thinkbelt) ...project which questioned most of the cherished establishment premises of university education and substituted in their place their complete inversion.”
― Roy Landau, Cedric Price - The Square Book (Architectural Monographs