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An architect’s sketchbook

The sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt at the University of Newcastle (Australia). Via Signal vs Noise.

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The details of modern architecture

Doppelhaus/Two-family house by Le Corbusier at Weissenhofseidlung Stuttgart. Picture taken in 1983. Peter Moro’s sketchbook

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Technique

These paintings of the area around S. Maria dei Miracoli in Venice were produced by Jenny Whittingham in 1997 as analytical sketches for a project in the School. They were produced by painting in acrylic directly onto standard photographic prints, … Continue reading

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Cards No.28

There is no Card No.29…

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“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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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Mantua

The overt feature of this picture is the facade of the cathedral planted fimly on the earlier brick structure, but look at the line of the kerb to the pavement (sidewalk) as it progresses from the corner of the cathedral … Continue reading

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