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Category Archives: CiA
Venice Workshop: Week 1
The 10 CiA students (with staff members Sally Stone and Eamonn Canniffe) participating in the international workshop at IUAV in Venice have had a busy first week. A briefing day was followed by two days of fieldtrips to significant archaeological … Continue reading
Posted in Aventinus, CiA, Friends & Acquaintances, Italy, Student Projects, Venice
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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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Blueprint for Vicenza
The August issue of ‘Blueprint’ magazine features 50 of the Best UK Design Graduates, two of them, Sophie Corkhill and Matthew Duggan, being from the ‘Continuity in Architecture: The City, the Building, the Room’ group. The projects were intended to … Continue reading
Posted in Andrea Palladio, Aventinus, CiA, Friends & Acquaintances, Students
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Improvisation at the Bus Station
Preston Bus Station is one of those modernist structures that condemned the pedestrian to the bridge or subway giving the surrounding ground plane or ‘apron’ to vehicles i.e. buses. The people of Preston are characterised by their disdain for motorised … Continue reading
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Images and Memory
Immagini e memoria: Rome in the photographs of Father Peter Paul Mackey 1890-01 Sir John Soane’s Museum is hosting an exhibition from the photographic archive of the British School at Rome of the work of Fr. Peter Paul Mackey O.P., … Continue reading
Posted in Aventinus, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Friends & Acquaintances, Name Dropping, Rome
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SANAA: Serpentine Pavilion
It is hard to put in words the effect of this extraordinary intervention by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa at The Serpentine Gallery in London (until 18 October). A sinuous silhouette characterises the slender reflective roof suspended on tentative mirrored … Continue reading
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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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Jeremy Deller’s Procession
Jeremy Deller’s Procession, Manchester, 5 July 2009 While the commissioning of an art event might not have the authentic resonance of a traditional urban ritual (such as the Roman Triumph, or Holy Week in Seville), this populist production for the … Continue reading
Posted in Aventinus, CiA, Manchester, Nostalgia
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“a spatial bowtie”, they say
The successful proposal for the LSE’s student centre has been announced. O’Donnell & Tuomey’s winning presentation boards as pdfs at this link.
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Friends & Acquaintances
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现代建ç‘çš„æ¼”å˜ 1945–1990å¹´
CiA staffer Eamonn Canniffe’s 2007 book ‘Modern Architecture through Case Studies 1945 – 1990’ (with Peter Blundell Jones) has been published in Japanese Chinese. This new edition is available here.
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Publications, Research
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