Category Archives: Sally Stone

Sign-up for Urban Narratives Workshop

As part of the Manchester Art and Design Festival (MADF), Future Everything (FE) and the Manchester School of Architecture Events Programme (…?), Continuity in Architecture will be holding an investigative workshop: Experiments with Urban Narratives Workshop participants will explore a … Continue reading

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Living in the European Higher Education Area

The ongoing collaboration of Continuity in Architecture with Instituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and other architectural and archaeological schools coordinated by Margherita Vanore of IUAV reaches a new audience via the ministerial launch of the European Higher Education Area … Continue reading

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If you happen to be in Venice today …

Short notice I know. CiA director Sally Stone is lecturing at IUAV* 3pm today. As she says in her Twitter feed: Speaking this afternoon at IUAV. Apparently I’m the warm up act for David Chipperfield. *University IUAV of Venice IUAV … Continue reading

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Venice workshop results

Work by CiA year six students at this year’s Archaeology’s Places and Contemporary Uses Workshop, created in collaboration with students from the schools of architecture in Barcelona and Venice, and the School of Archaeology in Catania. More pictures  Archaeology’s Places and … Continue reading

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North West Regional Studies

Dominic Roberts of CiA will be talking about Architecture and some uses of Tradition: Projects by Francis Roberts Architects at the Centre for North West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster on Saturday 7 November, 2009. The talk forms part of … Continue reading

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Andromaca at Palladio’s Teatro Olimpico

I looked forward with great excitement to the recent production of Euripide’s Andromaca at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza. Not necessarily for the performance itself, which is a bit of a grim story especially for a non-Italian-speaking visitor, but for … Continue reading

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Stone of Venice

CiA staffer Sally Stone has successfully obtained Erasmus Intensive Programme funding for a student project studying the relationship between architecture and archaeology in north-east Italy. The experimental workshop, run in partnership with IUAV (Venice) and ETSAB (Barcelona), will focus upon … Continue reading

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The room has been evicted from the house

The 6th Modern Interiors Research Centre Conference was held at Kingston University last week. The focus was upon histories and heritage. Among the interesting collection of papers was a description of the reconstruction of the Hotel de Ville in Paris. … Continue reading

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From Acoustics to Zoomorphic

…via Fabio Novembre. CiA staffer Sally Stone has, along with her perennial collaborator Graeme Brooker and newbie Michael Coates, produced The Visual Dictionary of Interior Architecture and Design. It’s a cutely packaged book that is intended to inform and inspire. … Continue reading

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Ashgate Studies in Architecture

CiA staffer Eamonn Canniffe is the editor of the Architecture series from Ashgate Publishing. Follow the link to read a brief online interview with him. Ashgate Studies in Architecture See ‘Contact us’ in the sidebar for contact details. CiA: Hitting … Continue reading

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Geography & Creativity

In a very interesting episode of In Business this week, Peter Day was talking to Richard Florida, the author of Rise of the Creative Classes and the Director of the Martin Institute of Prosperity in Toronto. Florida discusses the connection … Continue reading

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Interior Architecture: Context & Environment

CiA staffer Sally Stone and her co-author Graeme Brooker have just had their second book in the Basic Interior Architecture series published. “Context & Environment” examines the ways in which elements based both inside and outside of the host building … Continue reading

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