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Jaume Fuster Library

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Looking Through

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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Venetian Pile Driver

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The Lycian Way

  Our good friend and erstwhile colleague Neil Stevenson has caught the mid-life pilgrimage bug. His latest cycle journey was along the Lycian Way in Turkey, a route littered with archaeological remains, interesting lodgings and good food. Neil’s Lycian Way … 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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Kolumba

Some architecture students I recently met had never heard of Peter Zumthor (!). I offer a photoset of the Kolumba Museum in Cologne as a reminder. Photoset

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Neil Stevenson’s camino sketchbook

Neil Stevenson was a tutor at Manchester School of Architecture during the ‘nineties (now at Sheffield Hallam). He combines experience of practice with a generous approach to teaching, a wide knowledge of artistic culture and an ability to stop, look … Continue reading

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At Nottingham Contemporary

Everybody is talking about it, so here’s a photo set of Nottingham Contemporary on the opening weekend. People were queuing to get in on the day and the visitor numbers continue to be healthy. It’s a serious piece of architecture … Continue reading

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Thiepval in August

Superimposed red line marking the axis between the Thiepval arch (east) and the River Ancre (west) in the Somme region. Note the persistent marks of trench systems below the cultivation. Early evening in late August 2009 and the sun is … Continue reading

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Notes from New York City #3

8. Sacred Space Guard with dog keeps people off space in front of Seagram Building, Fifth Avenue. Get too close to Mies and you will be bitten. 9. Gimp Car Clothes for your automobile. 10. $25,000 for a lampshade Previous … 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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Notes from New York City #2

4. The hardest thing about cars is getting rid of them. Multi-storey car park, NY style, approx. $20 per hour. 5. Hi-Line Disused elevated railway turned into urban park. Tribeca NY. 6. Did it really happen? Dutchman buys Manhattan for … Continue reading

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