Category Archives: CiA

Fifth Floor Shop Window 3

As Jack Frost nips at the gangrenous toes of 2006 the Fifth Floor window dressers turn to thoughts of Christmas presents…

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Skin + Bones

The New Yorker magazine last week contained a very interesting review of an exhibition that has just opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture celebrates the “increasingly fruitful … Continue reading

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Looking away

What happens when you turn away from the familiar view? For reverse view click here.

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‘A rattling good story’

Thomas Corrie, a recent graduate of the University of Sheffield school of Architecture has received a HIGH COMMENDATION in the President’s Medals 2006 (Link to President’s Medals site) for his dissertation ‘Treading in the Path of Others’ which was supervised … Continue reading

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The Schiffli Machine

Video of the machine in action Our friend in embroidery, Melanie Miller, is encouraging wider use of the amazing Schiffli machine currently unloved and underused in the embroidery workshop. She has initiated a research project which involves inviting practitioners from … Continue reading

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An architect’s sketchbook

The sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt at the University of Newcastle (Australia). Via Signal vs Noise.

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Autunno a Milano

Click here for pictures of the CiA Year 5 study trip to Milan.

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Card No.25

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The details of modern architecture

Doppelhaus/Two-family house by Le Corbusier at Weissenhofseidlung Stuttgart. Picture taken in 1983. Peter Moro’s sketchbook

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Card No.26

The full set so far

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Architecture and Theology

James Robertson has commenced doctoral research (supervised by Eamonn Canniffe) on the early architecture of Jack Coia (1898-1981) with particular reference to his churches. In this sketch of St. Peter in Chains, Ardrossan (1938) one can detect the influence of … Continue reading

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As above so below…

The recent article in The Independent gleefully predicting doom on the aspirations of the creators and residents of Poundbury… “As his Poundbury dream implodes, it never rains but it pours for Prince Charles” …brings to mind the story from Invisible … Continue reading

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