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Over 60 years on from its inception, the celebrated Fun Palace civic project developed in the 1960s by the radical theatre director Joan Littlewood and the architect Cedric Price continues to capture the architectural imagination. Despite the building itself never being realized, much of the previous analysis of the Fun Palace has been devoted to Price and his drawings. The critical role that Littlewood played, however, remains largely unrecognized by architectural scholarship, and a whole area of the project's cultural agenda remains overlooked.

Architecture, Media, Archives is the first serious study of the complex relations between Littlewood and Price, reframing the Fun Palace as an extended media project and positioning Littlewood more clearly as co-designer.

Drawing on extensive archival material, the book considers how, due to a lack of institutional support, the aims of the Fun Palace to transform the passive mass-audiences of post-war consumer socie

Architecture Media Archives

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: 9/19/2024
      ISBN13: 9781350345362, 978-1350345362
      ISBN10: 1350345369
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Over 60 years on from its inception, the celebrated Fun Palace civic project developed in the 1960s by the radical theatre director Joan Littlewood and the architect Cedric Price continues to capture the architectural imagination. Despite the building itself never being realized, much of the previous analysis of the Fun Palace has been devoted to Price and his drawings. The critical role that Littlewood played, however, remains largely unrecognized by architectural scholarship, and a whole area of the project's cultural agenda remains overlooked.

      Architecture, Media, Archives is the first serious study of the complex relations between Littlewood and Price, reframing the Fun Palace as an extended media project and positioning Littlewood more clearly as co-designer.

      Drawing on extensive archival material, the book considers how, due to a lack of institutional support, the aims of the Fun Palace to transform the passive mass-audiences of post-war consumer socie

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