Cedric Price.Fun Place:Interior Perspective 1964.Gelatin Silver print,Cedric Prize fonds CCA collection DR 1995:0188:518:2

As the Venice Biennale opens this week, CCA invite visitors to the Swiss pavilion at the Giardini, where Lucius Burckhardt and Cedric Price – A stroll through a fun palace, a project by Hans Ulrich Obrist presented in collaboration with the CCA, is on display.

Cedric Price.International Foundation for the Canadian Centre for Architetcure (IFCCA) prize for the design of cities competition:conceptual sketch incorporating a panoramic view of the site in Western Manhattan,New York,New York,1998 or 1999.Cedric Price fonds CCA collection DR2004:0360:001

The work of economist and sociologist Lucius Burckhardt, who is known for developing “strollology”- the science of the walk—is presented alongside selections from six of Cedric Price’s projects (curated by CCADirector Mirko Zardini), including the unrealised Fun Palace, a giant toy/large-sized transformable machine with the goal of “enable[ing] people to think the unthinkable.”

Cedric Price.Atom:diagram illustrating the distribution of educational facilities throughout the town in phase 3 1966 or 1967.Reprographic copy with graphite and ink 46.2x69.5 cm.Cedric Price fonds,CCA collection,DR1995:0233:020

“It was well into the detailed design of the project that, at an alcohol-inspired brain-storming session off Times Square in 1962, we decided on the name Fun Palace for our short-life conglomerate of disparate, free-choice, free-time, voluntary activities, planned as a public launching-pad rather than a Mecca for East London,” Cedric Price said in 1990 in recordings from Talks at the Architectural Association.

Cedric Price.Potteries Thinkbelt.North Staffordshire.Angleterre:perspective and detail.Between 1963 and 1966.Balck and red marker and graphite on tracing paper,50.9x38cm.Cedric Price fonds,CCA collection,DR1995:0216:187

Other projects by Cedric Price, pictured above, include: the Potteries Thinkbelt; Westpen; the IFCCA prize for the design of cities competition; the CCA Mean Time exhibition; and a diagram showing the distribution of educational facilities.

Cedric Price,Westpen:diagrammatic sketches showing movement of cattle and sheep through the pen.4 May 1977.Porous point pen,coloured pencil,ink on yellow tracing paper,45.7x60.5cm.cedric price fonds,CCA collection.DR1995:0285:006

The exhibition will be on display between 7 June and 23 November. On 7th June at 11 am, CCA Founding Director Emeritus Phyllis Lambert accepts the Gold Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

Notes and sketches made in conjunction with the design of the exhibition Cedric Price:Mean Time.1999.Cedric Price fonds,CCA collection,DR2004:1033.001

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