Quotes from Cedric Price

Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.

I think I have said enough.

Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

Architecture is slow and therefore requires anticipatory design.

architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller

the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.

Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process.