Author Archives: Aventinus

‘A rattling good story’

Thomas Corrie, a recent graduate of the University of Sheffield school of Architecture has received a HIGH COMMENDATION in the President’s Medals 2006 (Link to President’s Medals site) for his dissertation ‘Treading in the Path of Others’ which was supervised … Continue reading

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Architecture and Theology

James Robertson has commenced doctoral research (supervised by Eamonn Canniffe) on the early architecture of Jack Coia (1898-1981) with particular reference to his churches. In this sketch of St. Peter in Chains, Ardrossan (1938) one can detect the influence of … Continue reading

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As above so below…

The recent article in The Independent gleefully predicting doom on the aspirations of the creators and residents of Poundbury… “As his Poundbury dream implodes, it never rains but it pours for Prince Charles” …brings to mind the story from Invisible … Continue reading

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Fifth Floor Shop Window 2

The second shop window by Year 5 is open for viewing on the Fifth Floor of Chatham Building, and what a delight it is that it is free of seasonal commerciality. Themed around the recent field trip to Milan, its … Continue reading

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Slaves to Architecture

As your correspondents strolled leisurely through Milan after a long and ample lunch, we observed that the city was indeed as ‘tough as nails’, as Yvonne Farrell had remarked. The general lack of exterior detail on the early twentieth century … Continue reading

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Famagusta, Αμμόχωστος, Gazimağusa

Hacer Basarir, a doctoral student supervised by Eamonn Canniffe, presented a paper at the recent INTBAU conference in Venice. The paper, entitled ”Reflections of change at the crossroads of different cultures: a 700 year old building – St. Nicholas Cathedral … Continue reading

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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

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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…

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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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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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