Cedric Price

Cedric Price FRIBA ( born September 11, 1934 in Stone, Staffordshire, † 10 August 2003) was an English architect and architectural teacher and author.

Himself the son of an architect, Price studied architecture at St John's College, University of Cambridge ( completion 1955) and at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London, where he met the modernist architect and urban planner Arthur Korn, who influenced him greatly.

From 1958 to 1964 Price taught at the AA and the Council of Industrial Design. Later he founded Polyark, a network of schools of architecture. As a practicing architect Price first worked with Maxwell Fry and Denys Lasdun before 1960 he founded his own office, where he aviary for London Zoo designed by Lord Snowdon and Frank Newby ( 1961). Later he also worked with Buckminster Fuller on the Claverton Dome.

One of his most famous projects was the Fun Palace (1961 ), developed in collaboration with the theater director Joan Littlewood. Although he was never realized, influenced his flexible room design, other architects such as Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, which the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris further developed many of Prices ideas. Price herself, she turned on a more modest scale to the Inter- Action Centre in Kentish Town, London (1971).

From Price also comes the idea for a Ferris wheel at the banks of the Thames, which has now been realized in the form of the London Eye.

Price was married to actress Eleanor Bron.