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Category Archives: Aventinus
Off to market?
James Robertson, doctoral candidate at the Manchester School of Architecture and Rome Scholar in Architecture, is participating with fellow Fine Arts Scholars in the group exhibition at the British School at Rome 14-21 March. James’s contribution will feature his research … Continue reading
An Architectural Gesture?
If the commentators on this early photograph (1850s) of the Roman architect Luigi Canina (1795-1856) ascribe his discreet ‘horn’ gesture to superstition regarding the Evil Eye, what might be the meaning of Andrea Palladio’s right hand in his portrait by … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Palladio, evil eye, luigi canina
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Figurative, Abstract, Classical
The apparition of Joel Shapiro’s suspended sculpture ‘Verge’ hovering since November 2008 between the (soon-to-be-completed) paired facades of the architect Eric Parry’s 23 Savile Row, London calls to mind the placing of Sir Joseph Epstein’s ‘Madonna and Child’ (1953) on … Continue reading
So farewell then, 2-4 …
CiA are saddened to witness the demolition of 2-4 Oxford Road in Manchester. It provided an atmospheric and convivial, though cramped, studio space in the early hopeful years. We need more spaces like that in the city not less. Editor’s … Continue reading
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Notes from Rome
James Robertson, the Rome Scholar in Architecture, is approximately half way through his period at the British School at Rome. His research on the ecclesiastical architecture of Jack Coia has revealed many parallels in the twentieth century churches of Rome. … Continue reading
By John Rylands Library I sat down and wept…
While the scholastic gloom of Basil Champneys’s John Rylands Library (1899) on Deansgate in Manchester perhaps offers no direct model for contemporary emulation, the quality of its construction and longevity of its use and occupation present a sharp riposte to … Continue reading
Trans-Pennine Fraternity of the Seven Hills
CiA are gratified to see the installation of a fraternal studio group at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture with their own blog. Studio One, under the tutorship of Russell Light will be exploring the theme of ‘Rome – … Continue reading
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The ‘high game’ of Palladio
The recent lecture by Peter Eisenman in Liverpool affirmed the current interests of one group of CiA students in the work of Andrea Palladio. Eisenman declared his faith in the value of drawing as a demonstration of thought, in contrast … Continue reading
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Peter Eisenman or Steve Martin?
Summer 1983: A restaurant in the North End of Boston with students from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Where are they now?
Posted in Aventinus, CiA, Friends & Acquaintances, Name Dropping, Nostalgia
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Palladio 500 Anni: La Grande Mostra
The exhibition (LINK) celebrating the quincentenary of the birth of Andrea Palladio currently at the Palazzo Barabaran da Porto in Vicenza (until January 6 2009 and then transferring to the Royal Academy of Arts in London) is a stunning collection … Continue reading
Mapping architectural controversies of the recent past
Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism by Anthony Vidler (MIT Press 2008) Anthony Vidler’s elegantly slender volume in the ‘Writing Architecture’ Series presents a highly readable account of the archaeology of contemporary architectural theory. He discusses the work … Continue reading
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Let us now praise famous men…
Revisiting Roma Interrotta. (Standard CiA camera salute – Ed.)
Posted in Aldo Rossi, Aventinus, CiA, Italy, James Stirling, Name Dropping, Rome, Venice
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