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Category Archives: Italy
Basilica Palladiana
CiA have had a weekend away in N.E. Italy… This is a detail of the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza. Basilica photoset. Constructed 1549-1614, the familiar facade by Andrea Palladio is essentially a reclothing of the gothic Palazzo della Ragione.
Posted in Andrea Palladio, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Italy, Travel
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Veronetta
A student drawing from the past. Faye Whiteoak: Library, Veronetta, Verona (1998). Collage, pencil, pencil crayon.
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Friends & Acquaintances, Italy, Student Projects
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What is it about traditional spaces which is so adaptable to cutting-edge software?
Could it be that the lessons such piazze contain present an exemplary type of public space which demonstrates that variety, flexibility, historical memory and contemporary aspiration, the most everyday events and the most sacred spaces might be layered into each … Continue reading
Architettura Sostenibile
A new project by Bolles + Wilson at Monteluce, Perugia. Link to ‘Architettura Sostenibile’.
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Italy
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Space, Time and Architecture: Horologium Augusti in Rome
While Roman pragmatism found uses for the magnificent monumental areas constructed by numerous emperors, there was also the use of space itself as a display of power, no more amply expressed than in the complex of the Horologium Augusti, or … Continue reading
Posted in Aventinus, CiA, Italy, Publications, Research, Rome
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Looking away
What happens when you turn away from the familiar view? For reverse view click here.
Posted in Andrea Palladio, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Italy, Travel
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Autunno a Milano
Click here for pictures of the CiA Year 5 study trip to Milan.
Posted in CiA, Italy, Milan, Sally Stone, Students, Studio Programme Year 5, Travel
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Card No.26
The full set so far
Posted in Architecture Hacks, CiA, Crompton, Italy, Rome
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Slaves to Architecture
As your correspondents strolled leisurely through Milan after a long and ample lunch, we observed that the city was indeed as ‘tough as nails’, as Yvonne Farrell had remarked. The general lack of exterior detail on the early twentieth century … Continue reading
Technique
These paintings of the area around S. Maria dei Miracoli in Venice were produced by Jenny Whittingham in 1997 as analytical sketches for a project in the School. They were produced by painting in acrylic directly onto standard photographic prints, … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Italy, Venice
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Venice is like a large fish
This grain-plan shows only the buildings in Venice. It was derived after much labour from the detailed survey of Venice kindly provided by Marisa Scarso of CIRCE, Universita IUAV di Venezia (Cartographic Institute at the University of Venice).
Posted in CiA, Crompton, Italy, Venice
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Events, dear boy, events…
Continuity in Architecture hosted an afternoon of guest lectures on Thursday 26 October. Three speakers brought the clear light of practice into the stygian unknowingness of the Cordingley Lecture Theatre and demonstrated to an intent audience that the field of … Continue reading