Cedric Price’s Fun Palace is to modern public architecture what Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle is to physics. With this idea, Price recognised the fundamental changes brought about to modern society by the advent of cybernetics and redefined the classic architectural paradigms in order to address the fluid, interchangeable, indeterminate nature of contemporary presentation and fruition of arts and artistic events.

The Fun Palace is a revolutionary idea that has marked the past half century of design of art spaces, a visionary approach that is still informing architectural and urban thinking. As we celebrate this year the 50th anniversary of the Fun Palace—and the 100th Anniversary of its partner-in-invention, Joan Littlewood—we can and should measure the gigantic contribution of Cedric Price to the redefinition of nature and form of art spaces in modern society, as well as of the role they play in the regeneration of cities and communities.