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'X6 Folder: U.S. Addresses'

Lists containing business and personal addresses and telephone numbers, many of which prepared for specific trips. Typescript, reprographic and electrofax copies.

Also photocopy article by Joseph Crump, 'Less is Skidmore', 'Chicago' magazine (February 1991), 10 p.; magazine page dated August 1987 including 'Who's bought what at: 100 UN Plaza', annotated with red asterisk next to Geoffrey Howe's purchase; one postcard of Delray Beach in Florida, sent from New York by Price to his firm, 23 January 1990: 'It's a very rum place--but better than its postcards. C.'

'X14' file relating to exhibitions, conferences and lectures

Original and photocopy materials, some bearing marks for other file series (notably 'X24'--Travel). Includes:

Barcelona lecture, 2001: photocopy article by Joaquim Coca, 'Cedric Price: L'Arquitecte com a Creador de Futur' (in 'Informació', pp.12-13) with four photographs (colour photocopies) taken for article by Jordi Pareto;

page of photographs (colour photocopier print) annotated 'Photos/Migrateurs';

correspondence: invitations to various exhibitions, to speak, to discuss arrangements for confirmed appearances, etc., with some of Price's responses (including photocopy fax reply to William Cannady at Rice, May 1992);

papers relating to December 1997-February 1998 travel, including participation in the Cities of the Future seminar, Shanghai (December 1997);

papers relating to 'Utopia Station' at the Venice Biennale in 2003, curated by Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija (material dated 2002-2003);

papers preparatory to exhibition at CCA (Montréal) on several archives, including Price's, 2003;

'Cedric Price Talking on the PTb': transcript of lecture 20 December 2001 at the opening of the exhibition 'PTb: Obsolescence, Learning and Energy', and response by Juan Herreros, 'About Cedric Price's PTb: Forty years of heterodoxy' [POTTERIES THINKBELT], with cover letter;

correspondence from and copies to Juan Herreros, with related planning papers, for 'Island City: Architecture and Energy in Balearic Islands' project workshop set for July 2003 in Mallorca (material dated 2002-2003);

participant list and tentative agenda for 'M' meeting in China in May 2002, with one-page article/note by CP 'On M', annotated 'Be[i]jing May Day 2002';

background and plan for exhibition with the working title 'The Process', set for Autumn 2003 at Kiasma (Museum of Contemporary Art), [Helsinki] Finland;

correspondence (Samantha Hardingham) and papers relating to Cedric Price Supercrit, set for November 2003;

copy of GLASPaper, February 2002: interview of Price by Florian Kossak, 'Cedric Price on Delight, Mismatching Resources and the Speed of a Building' on pp. 8-9., together with publicity material for 'pigeon hole city' architecture student competition (with one unsigned typescript note to Price) from GLAS, for which Cedric Price was one of the adjudicators (also early 2002).

World Trade Center leaflet

  • Price/Price 1/6/12/4A
  • File
  • 1970-1973 (Circa. Predates the opening of the Centre in 1973.)
  • Part of Cedric Price Collection

Publicity brochure for the projected World Trade Center in the port of New York, produced by the port authority.

White Oak Project [ie Generator].

Photocopy of index card headed White Oak Project with 5 point handwritten summary of aims/principles of project. (Original discoloured copy, and new photocopy.)

'Welsh welcome wagon'

Hand-drawn map of Wales on office architectural tracing paper, showing castles and sites of interest. Three pieces, each 36 x 72 cm.

'Various articles in: English House of Future, SCSD Report, London News 1848, Civil Eng. Issue on CHANNEL TUNNEL, SID clip (CP Uncle)'

Apparently posthumous sorting or use file (title from cover label). Contains:

'The Illustrated London News', 15 April 1848 edition, with headline news on the Chartist demonstration and numerous engravings, including the New Holland Ferry on the Humber (Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway). Bears Conduit Street mark and manuscript note (dip pen) of recipient (?), Mr H Beardmore, Upper Tean, Staffordshire; penny duty stamp on p. 242. ['White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire', 1851, includes a Henry Beardmore, a blacksmith at Upper Tean.];

photocopy article, 'The English House of the Future: Views of Leading Architects', 'The Strand Magazine', vol. 26 [December 1903], pp. 673-680;

booklet, 'SCSD: An Interim Report' (School Construction Systems Development), apparently Frank Newby's copy (manuscript name in upper right corner of cover), New York: Educational Facilities Laboratories, Inc., January 1964, with loose article originally inserted at pp. 10-11: 'System Building' (no author named), 'Interbuild', February 1965, pp.24-26;

photocopy article, 'The tall building artistically reconsidered', by Ada Louise Huxtable, 'The New Criterion' (November 1982), pp. 1-25;

photocopy extracts from James Holland, 'Minerva at Fifty: The Jubilee History of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers 1930 to 1980' (Westerham, Kent: Hurtwood Publications Ltd., 1980): title page, pp. 4 and 8 (photographs of the Society's Presidents 1930-1953, including J. F. Price 1939/43, CP's uncle);

Civil Engineering Special Issue of ICE 'Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers', on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link: Planning and People, May 2003, vol. 156, Special Issue 1; marked 'Save--Library' on cover.

Valentine's rhyme addressed to Crispin

Sent 'from all of us here at Alva Street' [Edinburgh], not in CP's hand. Crispin is likely to be Crispin Worthington, a friend of CP's from Cambridge, son of Sir Hubert Worthington, architect.

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