Potteries Thinkbelt

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People:

Cedric Price (architect)
Frank Newby (consulting engineer)
Douglas Smith and Ruddle Chartered Quantity Surveyors (quantity surveyors)
Stephen Mullin (assistant)
Aerofilms and Aero Pictorial Ltd. (photographic studio)
Cedric Price (archive creator)

Title:

Potteries Thinkbelt

Date:

1939-1987, predominant 1963-1967

Level of archival description:
File 56

Extent and medium:

192 reprographic copies
190 drawings
3 panels
0.15 l.m. of textual records
0.04 l.m. of photographic materials

Scope and content:
File documents the unexecuted project, Potteries Thinkbelt, conceived for North Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. The proposal called for a network of educational facilities for 20,000 students to be located over a 100 square mile area northwest of London. Moveable components, including fold-out lecture/demonstration units, rail-based teaching units, self-teach carrel units, faculty units, and housing units, were to be dispersed along the rail system. Existing conditions materials include regional aerial photographs with overlays of the rail system, and photographs, photo collages and panoramas of the region. Schematic sketches and drawings show the development of Price's design. Regional plans examine links between new and existing rail systems and national transportation networks and their projected use. Diagrammatic plans illustrate the relationships between recommended functions/activities attributed to specific areas. Detailed plans, sections, elevations, and axonometric drawings show housing types (sprawl, capsule, and crate), faculty and transfer areas in Madeley, Pitts Hill, and Meir. Other materials include regional land-use plans, photomontages with drawn perspectives, thumbnail sketches, life-span charts, conceptual sketches, aerial photographs and reprographic copies, some rendered and annotated. Many of the drawings were published in Price, Cedric. "PTB, Potteries Thinkbelt: A Plan for an Advanced Educational Industry in North Staffordshire." 'Architectural Design'. (October, 1966), 483-497; in Price, Cedric and Paul Barker, "The Potteries Thinkbelt", 'New Society' (June 1966) 14-17; and in Price, Cedric "Potteries Thinkbelt: Project for an Education Industry", 'Bauen & Wohnen', no. 9 (1967) 351-360. Material in this file was created between 1939 and 1987 but predominantly between 1963 and 1967.

File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, presentation drawings, publication drawings, reference drawings, photographic material, and textual records.

Reference number:

AP144.S2.D56

Arrangement:
Materials in this series were kept in the original order in which they were received.

Location:

Staffordshire England United Kingdom

Language of material:

English, German

Related units of description:

For additional materials that relate to this project, see the following files in this fonds: File DR2004:0036 contains negatives; File DR2006:0077 contains a photograph; File DR2004:0787 contains drawings; File DR2004:0054 contains drawings; and File DR2004:0259 contains textual records. The following files in this project series contain materials related to other projects: File DR1995:0216:400 includes textual materials that relates to project series AP144.S22.D47 Tone Vale Hospital, project series AP144.S2.D46 Fun Palace, and project series AP144.S2.D53; and File DR1995:0216:398-399 includes materials that relates to project series AP144.S2.D74 Birmingham and Midland Institute.

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