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Category Archives: CiA
Encounters with Big Jim: What not to say…
Picture the scene – the garden of an East Anglian manor house in early October in the late 1970s. A group of gauche first year architecture students are enjoying the hospitality of their tutor (the widow of an eminent professor … Continue reading
Posted in Aventinus, CiA, James Stirling
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Milano TV
Continuity in Architecture caught in the Milanese media net: LINK
Posted in CiA, Italy, Milan, Publications, Sally Stone, Student Projects
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Card No.16
The coastline of Britain, longer for dogs than men.
Posted in Architecture Hacks, CiA, Crompton
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Stirling Archive
In 1999 the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal purchased the archive of James Stirling and Michael Wilford’s office, including much material from Stirling’s previous architectural firms. In the linked edition of MOQDOC (a Canadian newsletter for art libraries and … Continue reading
Posted in Aventinus, CiA, James Stirling
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Rogue Mail
Stirling stamps. James Stirling 22 April 1926 – 25 June 1992
Posted in Aventinus, CiA, James Stirling, Nostalgia
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Four Stars
CiA staffer Eamonn Canniffe and his co-author Peter Blundell Jones get a four star review from Alan Powers in this week’s Building Design for Modern Architecture Through Case Studies 1945-1990. CLICK for the full review in BD Online. Other Books … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Press, Publications, Sally Stone
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The Show
The External Examiners are in so these are just snatched photos of this year’s CiA Bachelor of Architecture show. The exhibition (in colour!) opens at 6pm tomorrow (Friday 15 June 2007) on the fifth floor of the Chatham Building. See … Continue reading
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Addio Anno Cinque!
Continuity in Architecture’s academic year draws to a close with the submission of final projects and this final film record of Year 5’s MOdAM proposals for a Museum and School of Fashion. In the next academic year students will embark … Continue reading
Posted in Aventinus, CiA, Student Projects, Studio Programme Year 5
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“not enough Jim.”
Doris Lockhart Saatchi has written about the artist Ben Johnson and his encounter with James Stirling. Johnson became attracted to the artistic issues raised by architecture in 1973, when he first saw James Stirling’s Leicester University Department of Engineering building. … Continue reading
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Frankenstein in Leicester
Leicester University Engineering Building Architect: Stirling and Gowan 1959 In the engineering building at the University of Leicester by Stirling and Gowan, the profession was presented with its Frankenstein, amidst a concert of maidenish squeaks that have not yet died … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, James Stirling, Precedents
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Messages from Portugal
Our recent post about Evora has led to some interesting correspondence with Portuguese architects and students. rui-mello sends us some images of the work of Joaquim Massena. The project is a theatre in Oporto. The work of Massena, which appears … Continue reading
Posted in Alvaro Siza, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Portugal, Publications
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James Stirling: History Faculty
Taken inside James Stirling’s History Faculty Building at the University of Cambridge, 1967. James Stirling 22 April 1926 – 25 June 1992
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, James Stirling, Nostalgia
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