FAUP EDITORIAL

Gonçalo M. Furtado C. L.,

"Cedric Price's Generator: The History of the Project",
Oporto: Faupeditorial,
2008 (Forthcoming.)


Contents:


0 - Introduction: The first intelligent building

1 - The rise of Generator and its initial design studies
1.1. - The Gilman Paper Company
1.2 - The briefings and establishing the feasibility study
1.3 - The research continues: towards a responsive architecture
1.4 - The project validation
1.5 - Assessments and preparing a press release

2 - Consultancies and further design definition
2.1 - Fuelling technical cooperation and the soil survey
2.2 - The products survey
2.3 - The “just one” menu and the (spatial) regeneration process
2.4 - The first “Menu”
2.5 - The American front
2.6 - Specifying the building components
2.7 - The technical Reports
2.8 - The architectural drawings
2.9 - The first service systems

3 - Envisioning the building and the announcement of its suspension
3.1 - The first experience with a residence
3.2 - Setting the grid, difficulties and revisions
3.3 - The prototype and alike
3.4 - The last efforts and trip
3.5 - The service systems and last detail
3.6 - The paper simulations and a temporary break

4 - Frazer’s systems research
4.1 - Requiring Frazer’s systems consultancy
4.2 - The computational proposals and programs
4.3 - The Frazers’ research and techniques
4.4 - The Generator computer programs, models and perspectives
4.5 - The Generator’s acknowledgement as the first intelligent building and its repercussions
4.6 - The Frazer’s further research and correspondence concerning the Generator

5 - The Generator revisited
5.1 - Insights
5.2 - Design, Architecture and the Information Society

6 - Conclusion - The envisioning of an evolving environment

7 - Archival and bibliographical sources


See also:
Gonçalo M. Furtado C. L.,
"Generator and Beyond: Encounters of Cedric Price and John Frazer",
Coimbra: Semear Palavras,
2008.