The relationship between Cedric Price and Atelier Bow-Wow
by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima

Between Cedric and Bow-Wow, the following keywords might appear as bridges.

1. “timescale”.
The idea of an architecture that takes time into account was of central importance to Cedric Price. His focus on a time-based and anticipatory architecture is revealed through projects such as Fun Palace or London Zoo Aviary, which facilitate different behaviors carrying their own specific timescale and rhythm. The notion of timescale is rediscovered in our thoughts on behaviorology, which discusses the behaviors of different actors for architecture such as nature, people, building, and their relationship. Behavior embodies the rhythm of repetition and appears differently up to a certain timescale. Architecture synthesizes different behavior with different timescale in one physical entity.

2. “responsiveness”
The dream of architecture is to be able to change its form in response to the surrounding climate and social conditions, which are constantly changing. This responsiveness can be a strong metaphor of an architecture achieved in the complex balance between different factors, even though it’s fixed in its form and placed on the ground.

3. “pragmatism”
Price’s projects were an abduction in the sense of pragmatism, trying to establish the better hypothetical framework for contemporary life by giving structure to the fragments from the past and present. This hypothetical framework is examined by the “future” which might take its form within itself. Atelier Bow-Wow’s urban research and design practice have been mutually evolved in a similar process.