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Article: The man who changed England.(Obituary)(Obituary)(Biography)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
- Author:
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Cedric Price will surely be recognized as the most significant thinker in British architecture of the second half of the twentieth century. The critics Reyner Banham (who was a close friend of Cedric) and Colin Rowe have affected the thinking of many architects, but it was Cedric, operating from within, who combined a unique set of values, means and responses. Both Liberal and moral, both objective and specific, both systematic and particular, both witty and serious--it was Cedric who could simultaneously have you guffawing and pondering deeply. It was Cedric who was for so many of us the ultimate conscience.
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