Category Archives: CiA

T is for Trabeated

Venezia, Dorsoduro.

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Sketch plan of Malmo Eastern Cemetery

Malmo Eastern Cemetery by Sigurd Lewerentz. And the accompanying pictures … LINK

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Looking Through

Staff and students from CiA have just returned from the intensive ADSL week at the university in Antwerp. This annual event is a collection of lectures and workshops by an assortment of international architects and designers assembled together around a … Continue reading

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Architects at work

Architects’ office April 2006. Francis Roberts Architects have moved to 1 Ribblesdale Place, Preston.

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A Grand Day Out?

ManchesterModernist Society are organizing a ‘Preston Grand Day Out’ on Saturday 22 January 2011. All are welcome – see details on the MMS website.The trip will be led by Aidan Turner-Bishop, a key figure in the fight to protect the … Continue reading

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aSZ Arquitectes in Barcelona

Elena Canovas of the University of Barcelona joined us in our teaching at the recent Architecture/Archaeology workshop at IUAV Venezia. She is a director at aSZ Arquitectes, Barcelona. aSZ Arquitectes, Barcelona

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Hodder Collaboration

  Hodder + Partners have agreed to set up a special collaboration with the Continuity in Architecture BArch Studio. On 8 December Steven Hodder, Principal of the practice and Stirling Prize winner, will give a lecture about his work at … Continue reading

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St Wilfrid remains in Hulme

A flying visit to St Wilfrid’s RC Church in Hulme, Manchester designed by A.W.N. Pugin. Pevsner writes: By Pugin, 1842, and memorable as a very early case of the archeologically convincing church … The exterior of the church is red … Continue reading

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Hampstead High Life

Luca Csepely-Knorr has commenced her studies at the Manchester School of Architecture into the work of the Hungarian architect Bela Rerrich and the British landscape and town designer Thomas Mawson prior to the Great War. On 11 October 2010 the … Continue reading

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Francis Roberts Day

The Twentieth Century Society have designated 16 October 2010 ‘Francis Roberts Day’. There will be a coach tour of buildings by Francis Roberts in Lancaster, Preston and Blackpool. Francis will be there to illuminate and explain. Apparently there has been … Continue reading

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Venetian Pile Driver

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On the Ponte dei Miracoli

On the Ponte dei Miracoli, Venice. Light; fragments of view; bridge as public space; the view and the viewer.

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