Inclus dans:

• Fonds: Fonds Cedric Price, 1903-2006, predominant 1953-2000
•    Série(s): Projects, 1903-2003, predominant 1960-2000
•      Projet: Detroit Think Grid, 1957-1975, predominant 1969-1971

Personnes et institutions:

• Cedric Price (architect)
• Cedric Price (archive creator)

Titre:

Detroit Think Grid

Date:

1957-1975, predominant 1969-1971

Niveau de description archivistique:
File 73

Collation:

• 60 reprographic copies
  52 maps
  15 drawings
  0.62 l.m. of textual records
  0.01 l.m. of photographic materials

Présentation du contenu:
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.

Numéro de référence:

AP144.S2.D73

Mode de classement:
Materials in this series were kept in the original order in which they were received.

Localisation:

Detroit Michigan États-Unis

Langue et écriture des documents:

• English

Sources complémentaires:

• For additional photographic negatives related to this project, see file DR2004:0036 in this fonds. File DR2004:0278 in this project series contains an airline map for another project AP144.S2.D63, Air Structures Research.

Contient:

• DR2004:0276, Land use maps, map of sanitary sewer system, ordnance map, and street map
• DR2004:0277, Population, education, employment, income, and housing statistics
• DR2004:0278, City maps, student calendar, report, clipping, conference paper by Cedric Price (1968)
• DR2004:0279, Menu, correspondence, statistics, brochures, notes
• DR2004:0280, Course brochures, minutes of meetings, clippings, notes, draft report, press releases, sketches
• DR2004:0281, Publications, guidebooks, brochures, clippings, maps
• DR2004:0282, 'Oakland Community College: An Investigation into Educational Servicing'
• DR2004:0283, 'Oakland Community College: An Investigation into New Forms of Learning'
• DR2004:0284, Aerial views and ordnance map of Oakland, Michigan
• DR2004:0285, Regional maps showing population statistics and education facilities
• DR2004:0286, Invitation card and regional maps showing campus site plans and population, education, and transportation statistics
• DR2004:0287, Oakland County traffic flow map (1957), 1957
• DR1995:0242:001-043, Aerial views, street views, views of regional maps
• DR1995:0242:044-049, Existing conditions site plans of campuses, survey map, transportation map, and aerial photograph
• DR1995:0242:050-050, Zoning map
• DR1995:0242:051-065, Regional maps showing growth, population, retail trade
• DR1995:0242:066-078, Regional maps, showing growth statistics, schematic map, zoning maps, site plans and maps of campuses, and street plans