The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and design today. Based on live studio debates between protagonists and critics, the books describe, explore and criticise these major projects.

This first book in the unprecedented series examines Cedric Price's groundbreaking Potteries Thinkbelt project from the 1960s, an innovative high-tech educational facility in the North Staffordshire Potteries. Highly illustrated and with contemporary criticism, this is a book not to be missed!

In Cedric Price: Potteries Thinkbelt you can hear the architect's project definition, see the drawings and join in the crit. This innovative and compelling book is an invaluable resource for any architecture student.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2020

ISBN

9781000158427

Edition

Topic

Architektur

Subtopic

Architektur Allgemein

CEDRIC PRICE AND PAUL BARKER, 'THE POTTERIES THINKBELT, PAGES OF NEW SOCIETY, REPRODUCED FROM ISSUE OF 2 JUNE 1966, PP.14-7, PUBLISHED BY NEW SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS, LONDON

PROJECT ILLUSTRATIONS

**The scarred landscape of North Staffordshire Potteries c.1963**

**Aerial survey of site with cast shadows (ref p.83).**

**Photomontages (also overleaf): views describe both the condition of the site at the time and the ‘lightness’ of Cedric Price’s proposal(housing above and Madeley transfer area overleaf as discussed on pp.95–7)**

Preliminary sketch of view from train as arriving at transfer area. The drawing describes Price’s efforts to ascribe ‘an aesthetic quality to the ideas of indeterminacy’ as discussed by Jeremy Melvin on p.99

**Layer of drawing: view from train as arriving at transfer area**

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Supercrit definition
Project data
The event
Preview
Facsimile 1 Cedric Price and Paul Barker, 'The Potteries Thinkbelt', New Society, 2 June 1966, pp.14-17
Project illustrations
Facsimile 2 Cedric Price, 'Life-Conditioning: The Potteries Thinkbelt: a Plan for an Advanced Educational Industry in North Staffordshire', Architectural Design, October 1966, pp.483-97
Participants
Supercrit #1 Cedric Price, POTTERIES THINKBELT 5 November 2003 EXP/University of Westminster 35 Marylebone Road, London
Review
Further reading
Thanks
Index
Illustration credits