Cedric Price, 6 November 1989

Cedric Price is a bit of a legend over here at W* HQ. Not just for the small body of work the visionary architect and all round big-thinker actually ended up producing in his lifetime, but more for his radical methodology and the way it has influenced the likes of contemporary architects such as Sir Richard Rogers and Sir Norman Foster, and sowed the conceptual seeds for important landmarks such as the London Eye and Paris' Centre Pompidou. This is one of the videos featured in the Architectural Association Gallery's 'Wish We Were Here' exhibition. The archival footage is taken from lecture by Cedric Price from 6 November 1989. Through a selection of films, drawings and photographs, the show looks to convey Price's fascination with human nature, and inherently reaffirms the revolutionary architectural and sociological ideas that made him very much a man ahead of his time.