Category Archives: Venice

Olivetti Showroom

Carlo Scarpa was commissioned to design the Olivetti Showroom in 1956 and the work was completed over the next couple of years. The site was awkward, long and thin, and at about four meters high, hardly able to support a … Continue reading

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and…and…and…and…

Venice Architecture Biennale 2008: A Movie See also our earlier review.

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Out there: The Venice Biennale

The vast exhibition of contemporary architecture which is the Venice Biennale (curated by Aaron Betsky) opened last weekend in a stormy atmosphere which made the exhibitions oases of rather damp calm, despite the unsettling, luxurious aspirations of some of the … Continue reading

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Gritstone Venetian

Former Co-op building on the main street of Youlgrave, Derbyshire. Now the Youth Hostel.

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Querini Stampalia Foundation

On a recent visit to Venice, Continuity in Architecture noted the changes that have been made to Carlo Scarpa’s masterly interpretation of the Venetian Palazzo, the Querini Stampalia Foundation. These changes are apparent even before entering the building, Scarpa’s delicate … Continue reading

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Venice last week

Venice last week.

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CiA at IUAV Venice

CiA staffer Sally Stone and her co-author Graeme Brooker have just returned from the “Re-habituation of Interior Space” conference, which was held at the Università IUAV di Venezia in Italy. The theme of the conference was the remodelling and re-use … Continue reading

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Jim and San Souc-i

Electa Bookshop, out of season Ronny Ford has written to us remembering Stirling: In 1991 I made a six-month visit to Italy with the intention of taking in all of the regions and as many of the islands as possible … Continue reading

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What is it about traditional spaces which is so adaptable to cutting-edge software?

Could it be that the lessons such piazze contain present an exemplary type of public space which demonstrates that variety, flexibility, historical memory and contemporary aspiration, the most everyday events and the most sacred spaces might be layered into each … 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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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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Not particularly serenissimo

B******s to Architecture adds his/her two pennorth to the recent, generally negative, reaction to the RIBA Conference/Architecture Biennale jamboree…

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