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Category Archives: Travel
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
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Italy, Student Projects, Studio Programme Year 5, Travel, Venice
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Notes from New York City #1
1. Architect’s home life. Italian chromed steel electric fan by Enzio Pirali 1953. Donated to MOMA by Philip Johnson 1956. 2. New Cooper Union Campus Third Ave E7th St by Thomas Mayne of Morphosis opening this week, September 2009. Mayne’s … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Crompton, New York City, Travel
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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
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Friends & Acquaintances, Italy, Sally Stone, Student Projects, Travel, Venice
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Notes from Belgrade #2
4. Block 23 from Block 22: Picturesque brutalism, a city in the sky. Twenty floors up ivy grows and pigeon loft has been built. (Novi Beograd: Architects: Jankovic, Karadzic, Stjepanovic, 1975). 5. Weightlifter: Meaty Doric column on Belgrade Post Office. … Continue reading
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Three works by Siza
A recent visit to Portugal afforded the opportunity to look at three works from the long career of Alvaro Siza. Boa Nova Tea House (Leça de Palmeira 1958-63) This early work by Siza has survived a half-century without officious preservation. … Continue reading
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Notes from Belgrade #1
Some sights from a recent trip to Belgrade (Beograd): 1. Bill Clinton and Urban Design: Nikola Dobrovic, Architect, 1963, Ministry of Defence, Belgrade, in two parts, whose stepped forms matched each other across a major street, forming an image of … Continue reading
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Leaning Tower of PleÄnik
St Antun* Catholic Church, Belgrade. 1936-63. Architect: Jože PleÄnik A circular church with a circular tower that is now leaning slightly as can be seen in the gap between it and the neighbouring block. Monolithic columns in the porch have … Continue reading
Posted in Beograd, Churches, CiA, Crompton, Josef Plecnik, Travel
Tagged Beograd, beograd, Josef Plecnik, serbia, yugoslavia
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Not Brutal but Savage
The Barn, Exmouth by Edward Schroder Prior, 1896. Photoset taken this week. In The Nature of Gothic John Ruskin proposed a list of the characteristics of Gothic architecture. This was an attempt to describe architecture as a living process rooted … Continue reading
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Making a spectacle of itself
Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Institute of Contemporary Arts in Boston follows in the now venerable tradition of cultural regeneration projects, hoping to create its own New England version of the ‘Bilbao effect’. It is a taut essay in the creation … Continue reading
Uncle Monty’s place
Threshold of Sleddale Hall, one of the most remote houses in England, Uncle Monty’s Cottage in the film Withnail and I, has graffiti in the form of lines from the film.
Posted in CiA, Crompton, Precedents, Travel
Tagged we've come on holiday by mistake, withnail and I
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