An history of wrong footing

"NB* The socially delightful usefulness of responsive architecture has only recently gathered an establishment smart gloss and in so doing has cheapened the tight nice original usage of the very word—responsive." --Cedric Price, "AN HISTORY OF WRONG FOOTING—THE IMMEDIATE PAST," undated.
Generator Folio DR1995:0280:65, 1/5, Cedric Price Archives, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal.

Cedric Price was weary of what responsive architecture seemed it might become--long before blobs and wireless sensor nets. That's what a good soaking of cybernetics could do for old Cedric... and why Generator was such a fascinating project. Would that it could have been built... though I suppose it makes for a better story that it was not. Still...

I'm looking forward to posting my chapter in progress here next week, when it is complete. When I do, it will be one of the only descriptions of Generator available online and the only description of any length published since the early 80s. I wish there were something I could link to to tell you more about it in the meantime: you might look at the pictures in the catalogue for the 2002 MoMA exhibition Changing of the Avant-Garde or the images and project descriptions in Cedric Price Works II and Neil Spiller's Cyber_Reader.

In the meantime, back to writing.