Kawasaki

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• Fonds: Cedric Price fonds, 1903-2006, predominant 1953-2000
•    Series: Projects, 1903-2003, predominant 1960-2000
•      Project: Kawasaki, 1985-1987, predominant 1986-1987

People

• Cedric Price (architect)
• Gordon Pask (role unspecified)
• Cedric Price (archive creator)

Title

Kawasaki

Dates of creation

1985-1987, predominant 1986-1987

Level of archival description

File 136

Extent and Medium

• 73 drawings
• 5 panels
• 0.1 l.m. of textual records

Scope and Content

File documents an unsuccessful entry in a concept competition to remodel Kawasaki-shi, Japan, into an "advanced information city", designed in collaboration with cybernetician Gordon Pask. This file also includes documents related to the Architectural Competition for the New National Theater of Japan. Material in this file was produced between 1985 and 1987, but predominantly between 1986 and 1987.

File contains conceptual drawings, presentation panels and textual records.

Reference Number

AP144.S2.D136

Arrangement

Materials in this series were kept in the original order in which they were received.

Location

Kawasaki Japan

Language of material

English, Japanese

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  • Reference Number: DR2004:0427
  • Title: Draft proposals, notes, sketches, and correspondence
  • Form: drawings, textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 1

  People:

  • Cedric Price (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records
  • and other materials

  Dimensions:

  folder: 25 x 36 x 1 cm

  Credit line:

  Cedric Price fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Objects that have been catalogued:

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    • DR2004:0427:001
    • Sketch for Kawasaki project
    • Form: drawings
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  • Reference Number: DR2004:0449
  • Title: Sketches, plans, diagrams, sections, elevations, perspectives, axonometrics, site plans, views of Kawasaki, and text
  • Form: drawings
  • Catalogued items within this file 3

  People:

  • Cedric Price (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  5 presentation panel(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 5 panels

  Technique and media:

  Adhesive film and ink on reprographic copies, mounted on paper

  Dimensions:

  panels: 59 x 84 cm

  Credit line:

  Cedric Price fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

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    • DR2004:0449:001
    • Kawasaki: presentation panel with perspectives of students' residences and diagrams illustrating the transmission and storage of information
    • Form: drawings
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    • DR2004:0449:002
    • Collage of sketches for Kawasaki project
    • Form: drawings
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    • DR2004:0449:005
    • Montage for Kawasaki project
    • Form: drawings
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  • Reference Number: DR2004:0470
  • Title: Correspondence, notes, sketches, drawings, proposal, competition documents, maps, publications, invoice, and receipt
  • Form: maps, drawings, textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 1

  People:

  • Cedric Price (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.04 l.m. of textual records
  • and other materials

  Dimensions:

  folder: 25 x 37,5 x 4 cm

  Credit line:

  Cedric Price fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  144-001-001

  Objects that have been catalogued:

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    • DR2004:0470:001
    • Competition brief for the International Concept Design Competition for an Advanced Information City--from the project file "Kowasaki"
    • Form: books
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  • Reference Number: DR2004:0471
  • Title: Consultant's drawings, sketches, plans, site plans
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 3

  People:

  • Cedric Price (archive creator)

  Description:

  consultant's drawings, sketches, plans, site plans, sections, elevations, design development drawings, perspectives, axonometrics, views of Kawasaki, notes, map, and postcard

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  Technique and media:

  Graphite, ink, wax crayon and correction fluid on reprographic copies, paper and translucent paper

  Dimensions:

  folder: 25 x 37,5 x 2 cm

  Credit line:

  Cedric Price fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  144-2018-002

  Objects that have been catalogued:

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    • DR2004:0471:001
    • Section for Kawasaki project
    • Form: drawings
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    • DR2004:0471:002
    • Sketches and notes for "techno trees" for Kawasaki project
    • Form: drawings
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    • DR2004:0471:003
    • Sketch and notes for "techno tree" for Kawasaki project
    • Form: drawings
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  • Reference Number: DR2004:0472
  • Title: Competition documents, correspondence, and drawings
  • Form: drawings, textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Cedric Price (archive creator)

  Description:

  competition documents, correspondence, and drawings, mostly related to the Competition for the New National Theater of Japan

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.05 l.m. of textual records
  • and other materials

  Dimensions:

  folder: 25 x 37,5 x 5 cm

  Credit line:

  Cedric Price fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal