Category Archives: Sally Stone

Dalibor Vesely and The Vertical City

Dalibor Vesely, Honorary Professorial Fellow at Manchester School of Architecture and 2006 Winner of the Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architectural Education, will deliver a lecture entitled THE VERTICAL CITY: CHOICE OR DESTINY 6.00 PM ON THURSDAY 15 MARCH … Continue reading

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“Thinking Inside the Box”

Dr Charles Rice,, University Of Technology, Sydney “Thinking Inside the Box: Interiors in the 21st Century – New Visions, New Horizons & New Challenges”, was held on the 1st and 2nd March at the Lighthouse Architecture Centre in Glasgow. It … Continue reading

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Blackburn, Lancashire

Blackburn Cathedral has just received planning permission for a project which involves the construction of Clergy apartments, a new Deanery, offices and private apartments. The proposed new buildings enclose three new outdoor spaces to the south of the Cathedral. The … Continue reading

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MSA Field Trip Films

Year 3 students have just completed presentation to Eamonn Canniffe of their Semester 1 Humanities submissions – films of buildings they visited and studied during their autumn 2006 fieldtrips in Europe. The first group of films have been posted on … Continue reading

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The Mass-Observation Movement

The New Yorker has published yet another interesting and relevant article. In his discussion of the Mass Observation Movement Caleb Crain describes how, during the 1930’s and 40’s hundreds of observers recorded the everyday habits, actions and attitudes of the … Continue reading

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Hidden Rooms

Our friends at ARCA have kindly forwarded this article from the New York Times about Secret or Hidden Rooms. The piece brings to mind the Priest Hole, a term given to hiding places built into many of the principal Catholic … Continue reading

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Thinking Inside the Box: Interiors in the 21st Century – New Visions, New Horizons & New Challenges

Interior Architecture, Design and Decoration is a growing intellectual discipline, as the subject has become more accessible and highly visible so it has become more respectable and is now considered as a subject in its own right rather that an … Continue reading

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Skin + Bones

The New Yorker magazine last week contained a very interesting review of an exhibition that has just opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture celebrates the “increasingly fruitful … Continue reading

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Autunno a Milano

Click here for pictures of the CiA Year 5 study trip to Milan.

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“…that YSL Muse bag, it’s universal.”

Vanessa Friedman in Saturday’s Financial Times (11/12.11.06) discusses the universal language of fashion. She describes a party that she attended in Tokyo and says that “even though I couldn’t understand a word that was being said at the party, I … Continue reading

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CiA Flickr group

CiA students, particularly those who went to Milan, might like to sign up to Flickr and share their images by joining the ‘Continuity in Architecture’ group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/ciagroup/

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Event

UPDATE: Here’s how it went…Continuity in Architecture Event Three Lectures Thursday 26 October 2006 in the Cordingly Lecture Theatre 1pm Clive Albert of Malcolm Fraser Architects, Edinburgh 3pm Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects, Dublin 5pm Robert Camlin of Camlin Lonsdale, … Continue reading

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