ARCHITECTURE, MEDIA, ARCHIVES

Over 60 years on from its inception, the celebrated Fun Palace civic project developed in the 1960s by the radical theatre director Joan Littlewood and the architect Cedric Price continues to capture the architectural imagination. Despite the building itself never being realized, much of the previous analysis of the Fun Palace has been devoted to Price and his drawings. The critical role that Littlewood played, however, remains largely unrecognized by architectural scholarship, and a whole area of the projects cultural agenda remain...[Read more]