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Cedric Price: Mean Time. Installation view, 1999
Cedric Price: Mean Time. Installation view, 1999
British architect Cedric Price draws upon the collection of the CCA to develop the complex relationships between time, movement, and space in the built environment.
Looking at structures and building elements through the ages, including some of Price’s own projects, Mean Time presents photographs of an ancient Aztec sun dial, a railroad switching yard, a shot tower, and a Russian radio pylon; a model book for Renaissance labyrinths and mazes; trade catalogues for revolving doors; prints of an eighteenth-century firework structure and an ice palace of the late nineteenth century; plans for an unbuilt heliport in Montréal’s Milton Park and for the unbuilt high-speed rail service at Mirabel airport. These are constructions in which time is measured through space, where movement is controlled and synchronized by structure, where spatial constraints are overcome by simultaneity, where time is distorted and distance deceptive, where the structure predicts its own demise, or where efforts to anticipate social conditions have proved either strangely prescient or woefully wrong.
Mean Time includes three projects designed by Cedric Price in response to adaptability and movement: a demountable house for an archeologist, a modern-day labyrinth, and a stock-pen that serves double duty as a picnic site and playground. The works are part of the Cedric Price Archive at the CCA.
Curator / exhibition design: Cedric Price, London.
Giuseppe Vasi, etcher. Paolo Posi, architect. Design for the la prima macchina, 1751. CCA. DR1988:0437:017
Cedric Price. Plan, elevations, details, and sketches, Unit House, 1953–5. Cedric Price fonds, CCA. DR1995:0159:103
Humphry Repton, draughtsman. Proposal for a new residence and landscape for John Biddulph, showing how it would look when completed and after 100 years, Burton Park, Sussex, 1798. CCA. DR1987:0867:013
Wenzel Hablik. Sketch of a dome, most likely from Die gläserne Kette, ca.1919-20. CCA. DR1988:0018:004 R
Natale Bonifacio, engraver, after Giovanni Guerra, draughtsman, and Domenico Fontana, architect. Plan, elevation, and perspective of the castello used in the transportation of the Vatican obelisk, March 1586. CCA. DR1987:0026
Lloyd Wright. Detail for airport plan showing airplane and automobile circulation patterns, Lehigh Airports Competition Entry, 1929. CCA. DR1987:0358
Johann Franz Michiels, photographer. Cologne Cathedral under construction, Cologne, Germany, 1852. CCA. PH1989:0042
The First house-commune, Khaustly Street, and the Shabolovka Radio Tower, Moscow. 1931. Unknown photographer. CCA. PH1984:0968
Henri-Maurice Perrault. Elevation, plans and sections for a lighthouse on Île aux Prunes, Verchères, Canada, 1866. CCA. DR1981:0039:001.
Charles Estienne. Maison rustique, or, The countrie farme. Compiled by Charles Stevens and John Liebault, translated by Richard Surflet. London : Printed by Edm. Bollifant for Bonham Norton, 1600, p. 347. CCA. BIB85350
Giorgio Sommer. 199. Impronta del Cane - Pompei, Souvenir de Pompei, n.d. CCA. PH1980:0046:079
Myron Goldsmith, senior designer. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, architectural firm. Sections, Kitt Peak Solar Telescope, Kitt Peak, Arizona, 1959. Myron Goldsmith fonds, CCA. ARCH219313
Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher, photographers. View of the winding tower of Cwmcynon Colliery, Mountain Ash, South Wales, 1966. CCA. PH1987:1079
Van Kannel Revolving Door Co. Revolving doors: always closed. Styles, types, designs. New York : Van Kannel Revolving Door Co., ca. 1910, p. 46, CCA. BIB102039
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