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Category Archives: Friends & Acquaintances
Behind the scenes at the library
Aidan Turner-Bishop of the C20 Society NW Group writes: Manchester Central Library (E Vincent Harris, 1934+) is closing very soon for a major reconstruction. The Library has arranged closedown tours which are listed below. A special tour by the NW … Continue reading
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Neil Stevenson’s camino sketchbook
Neil Stevenson was a tutor at Manchester School of Architecture during the ‘nineties (now at Sheffield Hallam). He combines experience of practice with a generous approach to teaching, a wide knowledge of artistic culture and an ability to stop, look … Continue reading
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Venice Workshop: Week 1
The 10 CiA students (with staff members Sally Stone and Eamonn Canniffe) participating in the international workshop at IUAV in Venice have had a busy first week. A briefing day was followed by two days of fieldtrips to significant archaeological … Continue reading
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Blueprint for Vicenza
The August issue of ‘Blueprint’ magazine features 50 of the Best UK Design Graduates, two of them, Sophie Corkhill and Matthew Duggan, being from the ‘Continuity in Architecture: The City, the Building, the Room’ group. The projects were intended to … Continue reading
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Images and Memory
Immagini e memoria: Rome in the photographs of Father Peter Paul Mackey 1890-01 Sir John Soane’s Museum is hosting an exhibition from the photographic archive of the British School at Rome of the work of Fr. Peter Paul Mackey O.P., … Continue reading
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Stone of Venice
CiA staffer Sally Stone has successfully obtained Erasmus Intensive Programme funding for a student project studying the relationship between architecture and archaeology in north-east Italy. The experimental workshop, run in partnership with IUAV (Venice) and ETSAB (Barcelona), will focus upon … Continue reading
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“a spatial bowtie”, they say
The successful proposal for the LSE’s student centre has been announced. O’Donnell & Tuomey’s winning presentation boards as pdfs at this link.
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now what?
From the School of Architecture at UCD: Now architects have time to think. architects are educated to solve problems and propose innovative solutions. now what? is an initiative designed to tap into the wealth of creative talent amongst graduates and … Continue reading
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Interview with Alvaro Siza
Alvaro Siza – Quinta da Malagueira, Évora, Portugal (1977) An edited extract from an interview conducted by Manchester School of Architecture doctoral candidate António Oliviera with the 2009 Royal Gold Medallist Alvaro Siza Vieira AO: What were the principles underlying … Continue reading
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The room has been evicted from the house
The 6th Modern Interiors Research Centre Conference was held at Kingston University last week. The focus was upon histories and heritage. Among the interesting collection of papers was a description of the reconstruction of the Hotel de Ville in Paris. … Continue reading
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It’s dark. Dark in the daytime.
Further to Richard’s post below, more pictures of BDP’s Underley Hall projects from the early ‘sixties. Photoset
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BDP at Underley Hall, 1964
I recently visited Underley Hall near Kirby Lonsdale in Cumbria with Richard Brook of Manchester School of Architecture. This is Richard’s account of the visit: Architects’ original model of the proposed Chapel at Underley Hall Representatives of CiA and team-bau … Continue reading
Posted in Churches, CiA, Friends & Acquaintances, Research
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