Potteries Thinkbelt Project, Staffordshire, England (Axonometric of Pitts Hill, Transfer Area)

Cedric Price

1964–1966

An ink-and-graphite axonometric drawing showing a transfer area for Cedric Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt, proposing a modular, rail-linked facility to deliver education and industrial services across Staffordshire.

A long, grid-like platform and an improbably thin rail arm slice across a softly shaded landscape, while precise, airy technical lines reveal machines, circulation and layered structure in a diagrammatic composition that feels part map, part machine drawing.

Part proposal and social manifesto, the Thinkbelt reframed infrastructure as a flexible, programmatic instrument for education and economic regeneration and helped pioneer later thinking about adaptable architecture and systems-based urban design.

Palette

Art Terms

Architectural drawing Architecture Drawing Ink Graphite Radical Architecture Built environment

Exhibitions

Transformations in Modern Architecture

1979

British Drawings

1977

New Posters from England

1942

Modern Architecture in England

1937