Generator Project, White Oak, Florida, Full-Scale On-Site Mock-up (with Figure)

Cedric Price

1978-80

This color photograph documents Cedric Price’s full-scale on-site mock-up for the Generator Project, a timber-frame testing ground where the architect explored flexible, adaptable spatial arrangements and everyday uses.

A skeletal grid of pale wooden frames slices the grassy site into repeating rectangles, leading your eye to a small seated figure at the far end and giving the scene the uncanny intimacy of both a stage set and a construction site.

As a record of Price’s method, it makes visible architecture as provisional, user-driven infrastructure and helped advance modular, adaptable approaches that influenced later experimental and participatory architecture.

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Art Terms

Architecture Photography Chromogenic print Documentary photography Built environment Participatory art

Exhibitions

Integrated Building: Kitchen, Bathroom, and Storage

1945

Modern Architecture for the Modern School

1942

Architectural Models from the Collection

1974

Architecture and Imagery: Four New Buildings

1959