Cedric Price, Joan Littlewood: el ejemplo Fun Palace en los archivos del Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)

  1. Kishinchand López, Kumar 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Laguna
    info

    Universidad de La Laguna

    San Cristobal de La Laguna, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01r9z8p25

Journal:
Revista europea de investigación en arquitectura: REIA

ISSN: 2340-9851

Year of publication: 2019

Issue: 14

Pages: 127-138

Type: Article

More publications in: Revista europea de investigación en arquitectura: REIA

Abstract

The critical importance of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) of Montreal is decisive towards the interpretation of XXth century key projects in architecture. One paradigmatic example is Cedric Price and Joan Littlewood’s Fun Palace. CCA holds a huge number of textual records and drawings for this project. Fun Palace is a radical architectural and cultural proposal in which the architects conceived a free‑range floorplan and an industrial structure to create a new model for civic centers. This, of course, apart from its previous references, will have its impact in future architecture: Pompidou Centre, built by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, will be one of the clearest examples of it.

Bibliographic References

  • CHING, Francis D. Le Corbusier: Análisis de la Forma. Barcelona: Ed. Gustavo Gili, 1995.
  • FERNÁNDEZ, Alejandro. The Fun Palace, Co-creation, and the Digital City [Tesis Doctoral]. Ontario: University of Waterloo, 2012. [en línea] Disponible en: HARDINGHAM, Samantha. Cedric Price Works 1952-2003: A Forward Minded Retrospective. London: Architectural Association; Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2016.
  • LE CORBUSIER. Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret: Oeuvre Complète 1934-38. Zurich: Éditions Girsberger, 1930-<1977>.
  • MUÑOZ COSME, Alfonso. Los espacios de la mirada: historia de la arquitectura de los museos.
  • NAVARRO SEGURA, María Isabel. “Arquitectura tardomoderna y posmoderna. Pop/No-Pop”. Basa. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1988, n.7, pp. 6-25. ISSN 0213-0653
  • WALKER, Enrique (ed.). Lo ordinario. Barcelona: Ed. Gustavo Gili, 2010.
  • VV.AA. Atlántica : una década. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, 2003.