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Monthly Archives: October 2006
Venice is like a large fish
This grain-plan shows only the buildings in Venice. It was derived after much labour from the detailed survey of Venice kindly provided by Marisa Scarso of CIRCE, Universita IUAV di Venezia (Cartographic Institute at the University of Venice).
Posted in CiA, Crompton, Italy, Venice
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Events, dear boy, events…
Continuity in Architecture hosted an afternoon of guest lectures on Thursday 26 October. Three speakers brought the clear light of practice into the stygian unknowingness of the Cordingley Lecture Theatre and demonstrated to an intent audience that the field of … Continue reading
“Love it or hate it it’s worth a closer look before it goes”
…says Ian Stirland also known as “eat at joe’s”. His Flickr photoset of Preston Bus Station is definitely worth a look as the slow countdown to demolition continues. His latest pictures show modernism undermined by irrationality: Outside Inside As Ian … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Preston
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Eighties Electronica
Victor Dadras, now an architect in New York City, was a friend of Eamonn Canniffe’s at Harvard. We see him here, with his band ‘Dada’ in the ‘eighties, indulging in clowns, balls, bridges and locked doors in alleyways. see also: … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Friends & Acquaintances
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Card No.30
Vanishing point No.30 in a series of thirty-two cards designed and produced in 2003 by Andrew Crompton as an enrolment gift for first-year architecture students at Manchester School of Architecture.
Posted in Architecture Hacks, CiA
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Card No.31
The evil angle No.31 in a series of thirty-two cards designed and produced in 2003 by Andrew Crompton as an enrolment gift for first-year architecture students at Manchester School of Architecture.
Posted in Architecture Hacks, CiA
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Event
UPDATE: Here’s how it went…Continuity in Architecture Event Three Lectures Thursday 26 October 2006 in the Cordingly Lecture Theatre 1pm Clive Albert of Malcolm Fraser Architects, Edinburgh 3pm Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects, Dublin 5pm Robert Camlin of Camlin Lonsdale, … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Sally Stone
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Card No.32
Roma 1748, detail of Nolli’s map (700m across). No.32 in a series of thirty-two cards designed and produced in 2003 by Andrew Crompton as an enrolment gift for first-year architecture students at Manchester School of Architecture.
Posted in Architecture Hacks, CiA, Italy, Rome
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Milano Possibile
In 1998, when ‘Continuity in Architecture’ was ‘Atelier Italia’, we ran a series of projects in Turin and Milan. The short Milan project asked for a scheme for one end of a less celebrated leg of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele. … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Italy, Milan, Student Projects
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Stirling Prize
“Channel 4’s Building of the Year: The Riba Stirling Prize (8.10pm) meets the solipsistic profession whose stranglehold on the populace it patronises and torments recalls the medieval church’s attitude to the peasantry. Architecture is the new tyranny. And Mariella Frostrup … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Press
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Fifth Floor Shop Window
Continuity in Architecture students present he first in a series of shop windows for CITY – ARCHITECTURE – FASHION. Watch this space…
Posted in Aventinus, CiA, Milan, Student Projects, Students, Studio Programme Year 5
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cromp.com
Make the flag from a stack of 28 North Americas Andrew Crompton has contacted us to offer the chance to inspect fragments of this building preserved in his lonely eyrie in the Kantorowich Building. Andrew’s website at cromp.com is a … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Research
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