An Ongoing Party at the Architectural Association: the Ludic Pedagogies of Cedric Price and Mark Fisher at the turn of the 70’s
At the turn of the 1970s, amid an institutional crisis at the Architectural Association, a curious form of academic survival took hold: play. This article explores how ludic pedagogies contributed to an unexpected upturn from a near-closure into a centre of international conversations about architec...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Navarra |
| Repositorio: | Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/122209 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10171/122209 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Play Ludic pedagogy Architectural Association Mark Fisher Cedric Price Juego Pedagogías lúdicas |
| Sumario: | At the turn of the 1970s, amid an institutional crisis at the Architectural Association, a curious form of academic survival took hold: play. This article explores how ludic pedagogies contributed to an unexpected upturn from a near-closure into a centre of international conversations about architecture. Through investigating Cedric Price’s involvement in the AD/AA/Polyark Tour, Mark Fisher’s founding of Nice Ideas Unit, and the AA’s pedagogical debates, we trace how humour, hesitation, and collective play helped shaping a renewed vision of architectural education. These were not marginal oddities but pedagogical tools that challenged professionalism and reimagined learning as a process rather than a product. The AA became not just a school, but a ludic conversation —an “ongoing party”— where learning meant rethinking, laughing, failing and building anew. |
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