Generator Project, White Oak, Florida, Selections of Design Thoughts Used as Reminders within Office B
Cedric Price
British, 1934–2003
1978-80
Six small, stamped sheets of quick design notes and diagrams by Cedric Price, executed in ink, graphite, charcoal, and colored crayon on heavy-weight paper, intended as working reminders and prompts for his Generator project.
The eye is arrested by the bold red "GENERATOR" stamp above energetic, handwritten sketches—fragmentary plans, section-like doodles and terse captions—that read like a designer’s stream of thought, intimate and urgent.
These informal vignettes encapsulate Price’s turn toward process, temporality, and adaptability, helping to make sketching, systems thinking, and programmatic flexibility central to late-20th-century architectural practice.
Medium
.a: charcoal and ink on heavy weight paper
.b: ink and graphite on heavy weight paper mounted on board
.c: ink with graphite and color crayon on heavy weight paper
.d: ink and graphite on heavy weight paper
.e: ink and color ink on heavy weight paper
.f: ink on heavy weight paper
Dimensions
Each: 3 x 5" (7.6 x 12. 7 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation
Accession
1267.2000.a-f
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