On Log Magazine n.23 an article by our beloved Pier Vittorio Aureli … Here the link to read it online on Issuu
Volevo essere Cedric Price
‘Philosopher, sir?’
‘An observer of human nature, sir’, said Mr PickwickThe Pickwick Papers or The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens
From number ZERO of SANROCCO
_C. Price, London Zoo Aviary, The Regent’s Park, London, 1962
The aviary is a building for flying inhabitants – a giant, Fulleresque toy filled with Indian and African birds. As requested in the brief, the aviary was to be large enough to permit free flight and have a viewing path through the space rather than around it. The public passage thus takes a zigzagging route along the length of the space so that birds may be viewed from above as well as from below. A large volume was created by supporting wire mesh with tension cables, which were in turn stretched over a series of triangulated frames of tubular aluminum. These frames are carried by wires on shear legs at either end, thus creating a “tensegrity” structure. The aviary is architecture freed by the obsession of the plan. It gives an idea of an experience of space that is not limited by movement on horizontal planes (which is something we take for granted when we speak of so-called architecture). Strangely enough, this liberated architectural work, finally freed from the oppression of the plan, is actually a cage.
http://www.sanrocco.info/
Roma. Today I went through the Square Book which is a kind of unobtainable object of desires. The very first who’s introduced me to this book was my friend Stefano Milani: he’s one of the few owing the original printed for the AA exhibition in 1984 (the one shown here is just a later reprint by Wiley-Academy 2003).
London. Lazy day today spent to watch the three part lecture series “Aiming to Miss” by Mr. Price at AA on 06 11 1975 (Provisions & Providers) on 13 11 1975 (Tricks, Rules & Manners) and on 20 11 1975 (Aiming to Miss)
If you try and fire in a fairground between moving ducks you are far less interested in the size of the ducks as you are in the speed of them. You’re still watching the target. You’re aiming to miss.
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