Category Archives: Italy

On the Ponte dei Miracoli

On the Ponte dei Miracoli, Venice. Light; fragments of view; bridge as public space; the view and the viewer.

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Venice Projects: This Year’s Models & Drawings

Bachelor of Architecture Year 6 Projects 2009-2010 Following the students’ participation in the workshop Archaeology’s Places & Contemporary Uses the students chose sites in Venice for their major projects. Slideshow of Year 6 Drawings and Models Students: Peter Brown, Christopher … Continue reading

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Exhibition opening, all welcome …

You are welcome to join us at at a private view on 4 May from 18:30 until 20:30 of: Archaelogy’s Places and Contemporary Uses: An Exhibition at Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design (MIRIAD!) Manchester Metropolitan … 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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Outstanding

The Politics of the Piazza has been awarded an Outstanding Academic Title 2009 by Choice the leading source for library-relevant book reviews in the United States. In his review David H. Sachs of Kansas State University describes The Politics of … 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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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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Contempt

Via The Footnotes of Mad Men, glimpses of the Casa Malaparte in Le Mepris

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Venice Workshop: Week 1

The 10 CiA students (with staff members Sally Stone and Eamonn Canniffe) participating in the international workshop at IUAV in Venice have had a busy first week. A briefing day was followed by two days of fieldtrips to significant archaeological … Continue reading

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This year in Venice

The B.Arch. studio presentations are being held on 22 September 2009. If you would like a preview/reminder of the CiA studio proposal go to THIS LINK Sally Stone and Eamonn Canniffe are currently participating in a joint architecture/archaeology workshop with … 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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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

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