Monthly Archives: February 2007

The Mass-Observation Movement

The New Yorker has published yet another interesting and relevant article. In his discussion of the Mass Observation Movement Caleb Crain describes how, during the 1930’s and 40’s hundreds of observers recorded the everyday habits, actions and attitudes of the … Continue reading

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Architettura Sostenibile

A new project by Bolles + Wilson at Monteluce, Perugia. Link to ‘Architettura Sostenibile’.

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Hidden Rooms

Our friends at ARCA have kindly forwarded this article from the New York Times about Secret or Hidden Rooms. The piece brings to mind the Priest Hole, a term given to hiding places built into many of the principal Catholic … Continue reading

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Thinking Inside the Box: Interiors in the 21st Century – New Visions, New Horizons & New Challenges

Interior Architecture, Design and Decoration is a growing intellectual discipline, as the subject has become more accessible and highly visible so it has become more respectable and is now considered as a subject in its own right rather that an … Continue reading

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City, Architecture, Fashion – undercover

OMA’s Prada store features in the following samizdat report by the hardened fashionistas of Manchester School of Architecture Year 3…

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The Greatest

Edwin Lutyens was the greatest British architect of the twentieth century. The crowning achievement of his career would have been the construction of the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Liverpool. Of course, the building was never completed – construction, started in … Continue reading

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Space, Time and Architecture: Horologium Augusti in Rome

While Roman pragmatism found uses for the magnificent monumental areas constructed by numerous emperors, there was also the use of space itself as a display of power, no more amply expressed than in the complex of the Horologium Augusti, or … Continue reading

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Strong Language

CiA recommends the following new book: When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language in the Habsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, 1867-1933 by Anthony Alofsin (The University of Chicago Press 2006). This well illustrated book surveys the architectural experimentation which defined mitteleuropa … Continue reading

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Supercasino: From this filthy sewer pure gold flows revisited

Alexis de Tocqueville’s assessment of the topography of industrialisation seems all the more prophetic as Manchester celebrates another success in its bid to become the centre of ‘trickledown urbanism’. The proposed supercasino presents itself with all the anodyne allure of … Continue reading

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