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Detroit Think Grid
1957-1975, predominant 1969-1971
File 73
File documents Detroit Think Grid, an unrealized project for a series of experiments which were to be developed by Price in collaboration with various groups in the Greater Detroit and Oakland area and implemented over a five-year period. Collaborators were to include the municipality, industry, commerce, and the existing education network, particularly Oakland County Community College in Detroit, Michigan. The principle aim of the Detroit Think Grid was to make the education "system" flexible and responsive to the needs of the community and readily accessible to everyone. Detroit Think Grid components include mobile units such as swimming pools, public learning booths and packaged workshops. Material in this group consists of existing conditions documentation concerning Oakland County and Oakland Community College campuses, such as aerial photographs of streets, zoning maps and maps of various townships, maps of traffic flow in Oakland County, and site plans of Oakland Community College campuses. Design development drawings include zoning plans showing present and projected uses of various zones, major transportation modes, patterns, and access points, and predictions for general population, school population, and retail growth within Oakland County. Material from this file was published in "Cedric Price Supplement No. 3", 'Architectural Design', vol. 41, (June 1971), 353-363 and 'Cedric Price-Works II' (London: Architectural Press, 1984), 54, 66. Material in this file was produced between 1957 and 1975, but predominantly between 1969 and 1971.
Cedric Price presented a conference at the Cranbrook Institute of Science, in Michigan in 1968 and produced 2 reports for them titled 'Oakland Community College: An Investigation into Educational Servicing' (1968) and 'Oakland Community College: An Investigation into New Forms of Learning' (1968).
File contains cartographic materials, design development drawings, photographic materials, reference drawings, and textual records.
Materials in this series were kept in the original order in which they were received.
Detroit Michigan United States
English
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aerial views, street views, views of regional maps, with annotations, views of zoning and traffic maps, ordnance maps, campus site plans, and map of education zones and districts
43 map(s)
Graphite, ink, adhesive film, correction fluid, fabric tape, and adhesive tape on photomechanical prints, and gelatin silver prints
sheet (smallest): 14 x 12 cm sheet (largest): 56 x 51 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Objects that have been catalogued:
6 reference drawing(s)
Ink, coloured pencil, and adhesive tape on translucent paper and reprographic copies
sheets: 61.5 x 92 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 cartographic material(s)
Coloured pencil on reprographic copy
sheet: 159 x 105 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
regional maps showing growth, population, retail trade, educational facilitates, and transportation networks, site plans of campuses, street maps, and schematic map
15 design development drawing(s)
Graphite, ink, adhesive film, and adhesive tape on translucent paper, and reprographic copies
sheet (smallest): 38 x 71.5 cm sheet (largest): 40 x 72.5 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
13 design development drawing(s)
Ink, coloured pencil, adhesive film, and adhesive tape on reprographic copies
sheets: 49 x 71 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 roll(s)
Photomechanical prints and reprographic copy
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
population, education, employment, income, and housing statistics, office memoranda, notes, notes on learning programs and existing campuses, notes on "Cedric Price Supplement No. 3", 'Architectural Design', vol. 41, (June 1971) and on other publications, photomechanical prints of drawings, draft publication layout with annotations, sketch layouts, negatives, photographs and contact sheets of exterior views, aerial views, sketches, publications, promotional materials, clippings, brochures, reports, menu, and course brochures
1 file(s)
folder: 25 x 37.5 x 13 cm
- Folder for this file is titled 'Oakland', and it includes 2 files one titled '93 Spares' and another titled 'Peter M. notes'.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
city maps, student calendar, report, clipping, conference paper by Cedric Price (1968), air travel brochure, publications, aerial photograph, airline map, brochures, and air travel price lists and schedules
1 file(s)
folder: 25 x 37.5 x 10 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Objects that have been catalogued:
menu, correspondence, statistics, brochures, notes, Michigan newspapers, reports and newsletters by Educational Facilities Laboratory (EFL), and publications and reports on education
1 file(s)
folder: 25 x 37 x 12 cm
- Folder titled 'EFL / & OCC'.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
includes 5 folders that contain course brochures, minutes of meetings, clippings, notes, draft report, press releases, sketches, schedules, conference programmes, census report, transportation and land use study, statistics, newspapers, correspondence, invoice, publication titled 'Oakland Community College Annual Report - The Future: Thinkbelt with Think-links' (1967), report by Cedric Price titled 'Oakland Community College: An Investigation into Educational Servicing' (1968), application forms, budget, and presentation notes
1 file(s)
folder: 26 x 37 x 13 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Objects that have been catalogued:
![Announcement for a lecture by Cedric Price on "life conditioning" [from Detroit Think Grid project documents]](/img-collection/tFFSvgqr0JtCmr9Jqhb9--EtbIY=/500x642/443516.jpg)
![Oakland Community College Annual Report, 1966-67 [from Detroit Think Grid project documents]](/img-collection/0lwt6JR3TiCyOwnSk_UzcNE2tAU=/500x741/449808.jpg)
publications, guidebooks, brochures, clippings, maps, university regulations, transportation schedules, report, class schedule, calendar, promotional material, tourist brochures, and an envelope containing airline tickets and notes
1 file(s)
folder: 30 x 37.5 x 10 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
report by Cedric Price titled 'Oakland Community College: An Investigation into Educational Servicing' (1968)
1 textual record(s)
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
144-118-004
2 copies of report by Cedric Price titled 'Oakland Community College: An Investigation into New Forms of Learning' (1968)
1 textual record(s)
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
144-118-005
1 roll(s)
Adhesive tape on gelatin silver prints and photomechanical print
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 roll(s)
Reprographic copies
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 roll(s)
Ink and wax crayon on translucent paper and reprographic copies
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 map(s)
Photomechanical print
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
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