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Perspective of Battery, Crate, and Capsule Housing, Longton Site

Perspective of Battery, Crate, and Capsule Housing, Longton Site

Cedric Price
British, 1934–2003
1964–1966
A panoramic gelatin-silver photograph with ink and graphite overlays that sketches a transparent, modular “battery, crate, and capsule” housing scheme meant as a flexible, temporary intervention on an industrial site.
A long, desolate panorama is pierced by a delicate, rectilinear wireframe drawn in thin ink—its airy bays hover above rough ground and minuscule figures, giving the proposal a fragile, provisional presence against a spoil-heap skyline.
The work shows Cedric Price’s influential use of photodrawing to treat architecture as adaptable systems rather than fixed monuments, anticipating later ideas about temporary, service-based, and dematerialized design.
Medium
Ink and graphite on gelatin silver print
Dimensions
6 5/8 x 29 5/8" (16.8 x 75.2 cm)
Classification
Credit
Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation
Accession
1244.2000
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