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Category Archives: Aventinus
Distance & Detail: Basilica Palladiana
The building exerts its presence at the urban scale – in the view from Monte Berico, at the local scale – in its relationship with its attendant piazza, and in the geometrical precision of its detail. For more images see: … Continue reading
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Whither Manchester?
Spotted from a Manchester taxi crawling along Deansgate tonight, Jonathan Meades the substantial architectural critic. A noted critic of the architectural pretensions of totalitarian regimes of both left and right, could he be about to launch one of his withering … Continue reading
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Modern Architecture Through Case Studies 1945-1990
Eamonn Canniffe of CiA has collaborated with Peter Blundell Jones to produce ‘Modern Architecture Through Case Studies 1945-1990’: “Once again, new interpretations are presented of some of the most famous architecture of the period. Work by lesser-known architects, whose influence … Continue reading
Posted in Aventinus, CiA, Publications, Research, Sally Stone
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Doctor, Doctor!
At a degree congregation held at the University of Sheffield in December, Debabardhan Upadhyaya was presented with a Doctorate for his thesis entitled “Changing Paradigms in Evolving City Centres†supervised by Eamonn Canniffe. Among other places the thesis explored the … Continue reading
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What is it about traditional spaces which is so adaptable to cutting-edge software?
Could it be that the lessons such piazze contain present an exemplary type of public space which demonstrates that variety, flexibility, historical memory and contemporary aspiration, the most everyday events and the most sacred spaces might be layered into each … Continue reading
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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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
Posted in Aventinus, CiA, Italy, Publications, Research, Rome
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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
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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Ex-changing Squares
As long ago as the early nineteenth century Joseph Aston observed in “The Manchester Guide†that the town had no civic spaces of any merit and it would appear that fine tradition continues.The Manchester Evening News reports that two recent … Continue reading
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Festschrift for John Archer
Thursday 11 January saw Continuity in Architecture attending a celebration for the eightieth birthday of the architectural historian John Archer. John is a former lecturer at the University of Manchester School of Architecture, and the event was hosted by the … Continue reading
? The question we’ve all been asking. Not.
What mysterious fate awaits this curious piece of unoccupied land in central Manchester? Is the area formerly known as Gaythorn, between the former British Council HQ (the square gasometer) and the Hacienda apartments (on the site formerly occupied by Fac … Continue reading
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