Category Archives: Italy

LITTORAL INSPIRATIONS: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE LAGOON

Architecture can facilitate the exploration of identity through the examination of the specificity of the context in which it is embedded. The constructed environment is often charged with narrative content, certain elements come to the fore, while others are more … Continue reading

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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller…

Projects in Cartmel and Venice This year we have studied two locations, one home and one away. Both have a direct connection with sanctuary and with water. It is fabled that Cartmel Priory was founded in a place where fresh … Continue reading

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Exhibition Opening

Continuity in Architecture is delighted to announce the opening of an important exhibition of twelve projects from the Erasmus Intensive Workshop held in Venice in Autumn 2011. The show features the work of post-graduate students from the CiA Unit of … Continue reading

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Keeping his head

Louis Hellman, cartoonist, at Scarpa’s Canova Plaster Cast Gallery, Possagno. Circa 1990.

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Stair hack

Steps up to the rampart. Castelvecchio, Verona. Architect: Carlo Scarpa

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Redemption

Il Redentore from Zaterre.

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Piazza San Marco meets Preston Bus Station

In the spirit of the Collage City Unité/Uffizi comparison: Piazza San Marco transformed into Preston Bus Station.

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Villa Romana del Casale

A model of the uncovered villa. Sicily.

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Ortigia

The duomo at Ortigia (Syracuse, Sicily) is built in and around the complete structure of the Greek temple of Athena.

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Castelvecchio Museum, Main Axis

Carlo Scarpa, Architect

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aSZ Arquitectes in Barcelona

Elena Canovas of the University of Barcelona joined us in our teaching at the recent Architecture/Archaeology workshop at IUAV Venezia. She is a director at aSZ Arquitectes, Barcelona. aSZ Arquitectes, Barcelona

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Venetian Pile Driver

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