Category Archives: CiA

North Lancashire contains Architecture

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Sally Stone

Clare Hartwell’s major revision of Nikolaus Pevsner’s The Buildings of England: North Lancashire has just been published. The book describes all the significant buildings of the region from early history to the present day. It is an engrossing work and … Continue reading →

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Off to market?

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Aventinus

James Robertson, doctoral candidate at the Manchester School of Architecture and Rome Scholar in Architecture, is participating with fellow Fine Arts Scholars in the group exhibition at the British School at Rome 14-21 March. James’s contribution will feature his research … Continue reading →

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Mobile World Congress versus Mies

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Sally Stone

Melanie Miller (of Schiffli fame) forwards the following pictures from Barcelona where the Mobile World Congress was in full swing on Montjuic. Choice quote from a participant (via Reuters): Richard Windsor, industry specialist at Nomura, estimated after day one that … Continue reading →

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From Acoustics to Zoomorphic

Posted on March 9, 2009 by Sally Stone

…via Fabio Novembre. CiA staffer Sally Stone has, along with her perennial collaborator Graeme Brooker and newbie Michael Coates, produced The Visual Dictionary of Interior Architecture and Design. It’s a cutely packaged book that is intended to inform and inspire. … Continue reading →

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Philadelphia, Kahn & Moyamensing

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Sally Stone

I found Philadelphia: The Unexpected City* in between copies of Stalin on Lenin and A Drug-Taker’s Notes at Oxfam’s charity bookshop in Preston. From the cover blurb: Philadelphia…is full of paradox. It appears to the casual visitor recalcitrantly philistine. But … Continue reading →

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An Architectural Gesture?

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Aventinus

If the commentators on this early photograph (1850s) of the Roman architect Luigi Canina (1795-1856) ascribe his discreet ‘horn’ gesture to superstition regarding the Evil Eye, what might be the meaning of Andrea Palladio’s right hand in his portrait by … Continue reading →

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Sverre Fehn (1924-2009): Nordic Pavilion, Venice

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Sally Stone

A film made by a group of Manchester School of Architecture students as part of the History of Architecture course. More fieldtripfilms

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Sverre Fehn

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Sally Stone

…died on Monday. Our visit to Hamar BD Online

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Ashgate Studies in Architecture

Posted on February 23, 2009 by Sally Stone

CiA staffer Eamonn Canniffe is the editor of the Architecture series from Ashgate Publishing. Follow the link to read a brief online interview with him. Ashgate Studies in Architecture See ‘Contact us’ in the sidebar for contact details. CiA: Hitting … Continue reading →

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Order Revealed

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Sally Stone

Order revealed during demolition at 2-4 Oxford Road. Compare with Leon Krier’s satirical reinforced concrete order from ‘Houses, Palaces, Cities’*. *Porphyrios, Demetri, ed. Leon Krier: Houses, Palaces, Cities. London, 1984 **The building in the background is the former Refuge Assurance … Continue reading →

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Figurative, Abstract, Classical

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Aventinus

The apparition of Joel Shapiro’s suspended sculpture ‘Verge’ hovering since November 2008 between the (soon-to-be-completed) paired facades of the architect Eric Parry’s 23 Savile Row, London calls to mind the placing of Sir Joseph Epstein’s ‘Madonna and Child’ (1953) on … Continue reading →

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So farewell then, 2-4 …

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Aventinus

CiA are saddened to witness the demolition of 2-4 Oxford Road in Manchester. It provided an atmospheric and convivial, though cramped, studio space in the early hopeful years. We need more spaces like that in the city not less. Editor’s … Continue reading →

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