The English architect Cedric Price-who died in 2003 and is best remembered for infusing the discipline with a feeling for systems thinking, impermanence, and sarcasm-is a hard figure to pin down. He was not merely the jokey character that he is remembered as (that's what happens when your most famous project is the Fun Palace), nor was he a cybernetic crusader auguring a future of immaterial, nebulous architecture. He wasn't even the out-and-out bon vivant that he appeared to be. Rem Koolhaas perhaps summed him up best as: "a kind of puritanical Oscar Wilde."
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