What did № 42006 do at Alfred Place?

Plaque № 42006 - Alfred Place Standing before this modest building on Alfred Place, you're standing at the creative epicenter of Cedric Price's radical reimagining of architecture itself. For thirty-seven years—from 1965 until his death in 2003—this was the headquarters of his visionary practice, where the architect and philosopher developed theories that challenged everything the profession thought it knew about buildings and space.

Within these walls, Price conceived his most celebrated works, including the groundbreaking Potteries Thinkbelt and the Laboratory for Fun Architecture, projects that treated buildings not as permanent monuments but as flexible, responsive environments for human experience and play. This address became the intellectual workshop where Price proved that architecture could be a form of social philosophy, a place where drawing boards held blueprints for revolution—not the violent kind, but the far more subversive kind that makes people question what buildings are actually for.

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