Category Archives: Venice

Projects in Grange and Venice

We’ve finished another extraordinarily rewarding year with our fine thirty-plus students on the 2013-14 MArch course. Under the umbrella title of ‘Littoral Inspirations: Encounters with the Lagoon’, Year 5 studied Grange-over-Sands in the South Lakes, while Year 6 engaged with … Continue reading

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Model Making

It is good to see the CiA students making full use of the university facilities, here is a link to the workshop site which details their process of construction

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HAULuP: Heritage and Architecture of Urban Landscape under Production

 Continuity in Architecture have just returned from the 2013 Heritage and Architecture of Urban Landscape under Productions Workshop. This international project, which was based at the Università Iuav di Venezia (IUAV), was a collaboration between the schools of architecture in … Continue reading

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LITTORAL INSPIRATIONS: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE LAGOON

Architecture can facilitate the exploration of identity through the examination of the specificity of the context in which it is embedded. The constructed environment is often charged with narrative content, certain elements come to the fore, while others are more … Continue reading

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Architecture professors folding, stapling, singing

Remembering the Archaeology and Architecture workshop, IUAV, Venice, 2010

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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller…

Projects in Cartmel and Venice This year we have studied two locations, one home and one away. Both have a direct connection with sanctuary and with water. It is fabled that Cartmel Priory was founded in a place where fresh … Continue reading

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Exhibition Opening

Continuity in Architecture is delighted to announce the opening of an important exhibition of twelve projects from the Erasmus Intensive Workshop held in Venice in Autumn 2011. The show features the work of post-graduate students from the CiA Unit of … Continue reading

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Redemption

Il Redentore from Zaterre.

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Piazza San Marco meets Preston Bus Station

In the spirit of the Collage City Unité/Uffizi comparison: Piazza San Marco transformed into Preston Bus Station.

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T is for Trabeated

Venezia, Dorsoduro.

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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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Venetian Pile Driver

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