Category Archives: Research

Hasselt University – Faculty of Law: NoA Architecten

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Sally Stone

Any understanding of the past is determined by the manner in which the information about the pervious age is interpreted. All histories are partial; all contain an act of translation or decoding. It is impossible for the historian to provide … Continue reading →

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Sinister Dialogues

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Sally Stone

Sinister Dialogues: an international symposium held on 25th September 2014 at the Manchester School of Architecture.   This ongoing project is an examination of how an uncomfortable, terrible or destructive past of a structure can be negotiated though building reuse. … Continue reading →

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BDP Architects to Host Charrette to discuss the Urban Implications of Preston Bus Station

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Sally Stone

In December 2012 Preston City Council voted ‘in principle’ to demolish Preston Bus Station and replace it with a surface car park. This building is a major cultural landmark and it should be preserved and creatively adapted to serve the … Continue reading →

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the City: the Building: the Room

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Sally Stone

Sally Stone has just returned from the Winter School at the University of Antwerp. This important annual event invites academics and architects to run projects upon a specific theme, this years was Transformer.  Antwerp, an important city in northern Belgium, in … Continue reading →

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Looking Through

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Sally Stone

Staff and students from CiA have just returned from the intensive ADSL week at the university in Antwerp. This annual event is a collection of lectures and workshops by an assortment of international architects and designers assembled together around a … Continue reading →

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Hampstead High Life

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Aventinus

Luca Csepely-Knorr has commenced her studies at the Manchester School of Architecture into the work of the Hungarian architect Bela Rerrich and the British landscape and town designer Thomas Mawson prior to the Great War. On 11 October 2010 the … Continue reading →

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That Goldfinger Touch

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Aventinus

The 2010 RIBA Goldfinger Scholarship has been awarded to Luca Csepely-Knorr to undertake an M.Phil at the MSA. Luca will be studying the work of Bela Rerrich (1881-1932), independent Hungary’s first town planner who had studied under the Windermere garden … Continue reading →

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Portuguese Picnic

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Sally Stone

The inaugural meeting of the European Architectural History Network was held at the beautiful Portuguese city of Guimaraes between 17 and 20 June and fulfilled the organisation’s mission to create a vibrant new forum for the study of the complexity … Continue reading →

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The Postmodern Palimpsest: Narrating Contemporary Rome

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Aventinus

Eamonn Canniffe has been invited to give a keynote lecture at the above titled conference orgainised by Dominic Holdaway and Filippo Trentin to be held at the University of Warwick in February 2011 The Postmodern Palimpsest: Narrating Contemporary Rome «What … Continue reading →

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Jack Coia and The Prototype Pavilion

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Aventinus

Our colleague James Robertson continues his doctoral research on Jack Coia with a presentation on his work at the Association of Art Historians Summer Symposium at the Henry Moore Institute (24-25 June 2010) in Leeds. The conference theme is ‘Architectural … Continue reading →

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Living in the European Higher Education Area

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Aventinus

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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If you happen to be in Venice today …

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Sally Stone

Short notice I know. CiA director Sally Stone is lecturing at IUAV* 3pm today. As she says in her Twitter feed: Speaking this afternoon at IUAV. Apparently I’m the warm up act for David Chipperfield. *University IUAV of Venice IUAV … Continue reading →

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