Category Archives: CiA

Fifth Floor Shop Window 2

The second shop window by Year 5 is open for viewing on the Fifth Floor of Chatham Building, and what a delight it is that it is free of seasonal commerciality. Themed around the recent field trip to Milan, its … Continue reading

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Card No.27

The full set so far

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“…that YSL Muse bag, it’s universal.”

Vanessa Friedman in Saturday’s Financial Times (11/12.11.06) discusses the universal language of fashion. She describes a party that she attended in Tokyo and says that “even though I couldn’t understand a word that was being said at the party, I … Continue reading

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Slaves to Architecture

As your correspondents strolled leisurely through Milan after a long and ample lunch, we observed that the city was indeed as ‘tough as nails’, as Yvonne Farrell had remarked. The general lack of exterior detail on the early twentieth century … Continue reading

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Famagusta, Αμμόχωστος, Gazimağusa

Hacer Basarir, a doctoral student supervised by Eamonn Canniffe, presented a paper at the recent INTBAU conference in Venice. The paper, entitled ”Reflections of change at the crossroads of different cultures: a 700 year old building – St. Nicholas Cathedral … Continue reading

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Technique

These paintings of the area around S. Maria dei Miracoli in Venice were produced by Jenny Whittingham in 1997 as analytical sketches for a project in the School. They were produced by painting in acrylic directly onto standard photographic prints, … Continue reading

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CiA Flickr group

CiA students, particularly those who went to Milan, might like to sign up to Flickr and share their images by joining the ‘Continuity in Architecture’ group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/ciagroup/

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The worst place in the world to play frisbee

One of two overflows on the dam of the Ladybower reservoir, Derbyshire. The sizes of the steps are distributed hyperbolically meaning that it is impossible to lean over to see the bottom no matter how far down the hole you … Continue reading

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Cards No.28

There is no Card No.29…

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Venice is like a large fish

This grain-plan shows only the buildings in Venice. It was derived after much labour from the detailed survey of Venice kindly provided by Marisa Scarso of CIRCE, Universita IUAV di Venezia (Cartographic Institute at the University of Venice).

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Events, dear boy, events…

Continuity in Architecture hosted an afternoon of guest lectures on Thursday 26 October. Three speakers brought the clear light of practice into the stygian unknowingness of the Cordingley Lecture Theatre and demonstrated to an intent audience that the field of … Continue reading

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“Love it or hate it it’s worth a closer look before it goes”

…says Ian Stirland also known as “eat at joe’s”. His Flickr photoset of Preston Bus Station is definitely worth a look as the slow countdown to demolition continues. His latest pictures show modernism undermined by irrationality: Outside Inside As Ian … Continue reading

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