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“Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.”
― Cedric Price, Cedric Price - The Square Book (Architectural Monographs

“Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.”
― Cedric Price, Cedric Price - The Square Book (Architectural Monographs

“Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.”
― Cedric Price, Cedric Price - The Square Book (Architectural Monographs

“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.”
― Cedric Price, Cedric Price - The Square Book (Architectural Monographs

“Technology is the answer, but what was the question?”
― Cedric Price

“...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller”
― Cedric Price, Cedric Price - The Square Book (Architectural Monographs

“I think I have said enough.”
― Cedric Price, Cedric Price: Potteries Thinkbelt

“Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.”
― Cedric Price, Re: CP

“...the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.”
― Cedric Price, Re: CP

“Architecture is slow and therefore requires anticipatory design.”
― Cedric Price

“C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process.”
― Cedric Price, Re: CP

“I feel that the real definition of architecture is that which through a natural distortion of time, place, and interval creates beneficial social conditions that hitherto were considered impossible.”
― Cedric Price