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Category Archives: Italy
Querini Stampalia Foundation
On a recent visit to Venice, Continuity in Architecture noted the changes that have been made to Carlo Scarpa’s masterly interpretation of the Venetian Palazzo, the Querini Stampalia Foundation. These changes are apparent even before entering the building, Scarpa’s delicate … Continue reading
Posted in Carlo Scarpa, CiA, Interiors, Italy, Precedents, Sally Stone, Venice
Tagged Italy, Remodelling, Scarpa, Venice
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Yesteryear in Milan
The small Archaeological Museum on Corso Magenta in Milan hosts a new model of the ancient city of Mediolanum which helps explain the spider’s web of the present urban form. A general view of the model, with north to the … Continue reading
Yesterday in Milan
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Yesterday in Milan. Torre Velasca by BBPR (Gianluigi Banfi, Lodovico Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti, Ernesto Rogers), 1954.
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Italy, Milan, Travel
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Venice last week
Venice last week.
CiA at IUAV Venice
CiA staffer Sally Stone and her co-author Graeme Brooker have just returned from the “Re-habituation of Interior Space†conference, which was held at the Università IUAV di Venezia in Italy. The theme of the conference was the remodelling and re-use … Continue reading
Ara Pacis, Rome 1938
A vintage postcard found in a flea market in Preston. It shows the pavilion of 1938 designed by Morpurgo to house the Ara Pacis. This building was recently replaced by a controversial new building designed by Richard Meier discussed in … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Italy, Rome
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Museum
The long awaited rehousing of the Ara Pacis Augustae in Rome, by Richard Meier is a sensitive solution to the problems of a difficult site and a precious historical object. Although slightly heavily handled in parts the sense of durability … Continue reading
De Carlo’s Il Magistero
De Carlo’s Il Magistero: a case study in continuity? University of Manchester Ph. D candidate Hacer Basarir’s project concerns the conservation of walled cities and their key elements through reuse. Her research includes three case-studies, and she has just completed … Continue reading
Jim and San Souc-i
Electa Bookshop, out of season Ronny Ford has written to us remembering Stirling: In 1991 I made a six-month visit to Italy with the intention of taking in all of the regions and as many of the islands as possible … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Friends & Acquaintances, Italy, James Stirling, Travel, Venice
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Milano TV
Continuity in Architecture caught in the Milanese media net: LINK
Posted in CiA, Italy, Milan, Publications, Sally Stone, Student Projects
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MOdAM Research
Continuity in Architecture Year 5 studio projects for a Museum and School of Fashion in Milan, an element of the Citta della Moda masterplan. This film shows excerpts from the students’ research work with the design projects to follow shortly.
Posted in Aventinus, CiA, Italy, Milan, Student Projects, Studio Programme Year 5
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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
Posted in Andrea Palladio, Aventinus, CiA, Italy, Travel
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