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Cedric Price: From the ‘Brain Drain’ to the ‘Knowledge Economy’
Author(s) -
Mathews Stanley
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.217
Subject(s) - period (music) , character (mathematics) , economic history , economics , economy , sociology , art , aesthetics , geometry , mathematics
Stanley Mathews looks at Cedric Price's Fun Palace and Potteries Thinkbelt as polemics addressing the changing economic and social character of postwar Britain moving into a period of deindustrialisation, with the expansion of higher education, and the emergence of information technology.