Demystifying Art and Architecture through the work of Walter Benjamin and Cedric Price

Round and around again – Demystifying Art and Architecture through the work of Walter Benjamin and Cedric Price.

Theories of Architecture – Semester 2, 2005, University of Melbourne Undergraduate Research Essay

Introduction
The writings of German literary theorist and critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) were essential to the development of cultural studies, in the same way that much of contemporary architecture would have been inconceivable without the work of British architect Cedric Price (1934-2003). Price & Benjamin both worked against their respective avant-garde establishments and instead attempted to engage with (and were unafraid to acknowledge that they did), everyday people and popular culture as creative inspiration for their work.

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