Monthly Archives: September 2006

Not particularly serenissimo

B******s to Architecture adds his/her two pennorth to the recent, generally negative, reaction to the RIBA Conference/Architecture Biennale jamboree…

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Continuity in audio

A Radio 4 Thinking Allowed programme about the merits and demerits of continuity and change: Thinking Allowed Link now fixed!

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6 Studio

The Year 6 Studio Programme information from March has been added to the Studio Programme page in the sidebar, just to balance things up. Watch out for events and updates.

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Last chance to see…

Manchester: This is the former ‘Welsh Chapel’ (1837-1839) a familiar landmark on Upper Brook Street near the University. Attributed to Charles Barry, it is believed to be an early collaboration between this architect and A.W.N. Pugin. Barry and Pugin later … Continue reading

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Studio introduction

Contextual reading: John Foot Milan After the Miracle: City, Culture and Identity Berg Oxford and New York 2001 The studio introduction will take place in room 502 10.00am Thursday 28 September Dressings: Loos and Architectural Tailoring. Talk by Eamonn Canniffe. … Continue reading

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Monument and Sign 2

One of these artifacts is a product of a devalued aesthetic language, its meanings resting on long vanished glories, but obscure and devoid of significance to the contemporary viewer. The other is a symbol of enduring civic values, of pride … Continue reading

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Studio Programme 2006/2007

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE 2006/2007 MILAN: ON WITH THE MOTLEY… The relationship between forms of architecture and modes of dress has been theorised by the likes of Gottfried Semper, Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos since the middle of the nineteenth century. … Continue reading

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Last year in Palma

Last year the CiA 6th year students studied the city of Palma in Mallorca. Although the island has a reputation for rampant tourism, the city itself is relatively untouched and retains the qualities of a close, tight Mediterranean city. The … Continue reading

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City of Fashion? Where’s the architecture?

Cesar Pelli’s project for the Citta della Moda in Milan brings to mind the following thoughts: While private entities seek to extend their control over urban space and public bodies surrender management to commercial concerns, the iconography of the public … Continue reading

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Fashion versus Convention

“Today, the idea of erudition, of the architect as connoisseur has been rejected. It is curious that in a world of increasing specialisation, where artists and scientists are making dynamic new work from within their disciplines, architects have followed the … Continue reading

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The fashionable money is on Semper…

“…the beginning of building coincides with the beginning of textiles. … The Wall is the structural element that formally represents and makes visible the enclosed space as such, absolutely, as it were, without reference to secondary concepts. We might recognise … Continue reading

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Monument and Sign

“In the San Lorenzo we see today, the various types of additions to it, from the medieval … to the Renaissance …, are still apparent, while the entire structure occupies the place of the ancient Roman baths, in the very … Continue reading

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