Architecture, Media and Archives: The Fun Palace of Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price as a Cultural Project

Research output: ThesisDoctoral Thesis

Abstract / Description of output

This research presents a new kind of critical investigation of the Fun Palace, the celebrated civic project developed in the 1960s by the radical theatre director Joan Littlewood and the architect Cedric Price. Through a close analysis of the project’s construction and circulation through different media forms across its almost sixty-year long reception history, the study decentres the familiar architectural narrative of the project in favour of its more ambitious cultural agenda and recovers the critical role that Littlewood played in its realization.
Original languageEnglish
QualificationPh.D.
Awarding Institution
  • University of Edinburgh
Supervisors/Advisors
  • Dorrian, Mark, Supervisor
  • Garcia Ferrari, Soledad, Supervisor
Thesis sponsors
Award date4 May 2021
Publication statusPublished - 4 May 2021

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