Venice workshop results
November 16th, 2009
Work by CiA year six students at this year’s Archaeology’s Places and Contemporary Uses Workshop, created in collaboration with students from the schools of architecture in Barcelona and Venice, and the School of Archaeology in Catania.
Archaeology’s Places and Contemporary Uses: Website
Thiepval in August
November 11th, 2009
Superimposed red line marking the axis between the Thiepval arch (east) and the River Ancre (west) in the Somme region.
Note the persistent marks of trench systems below the cultivation.
Early evening in late August 2009 and the sun is almost coinciding with the east/west axis. The light glances off surfaces and catches exposed corners.
The Thiepval Arch, The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. Inscribed with the names of 73,357 British soldiers of the Somme campaign whose remains were not identified. Unveiled August 1932. Architect: Edwin Lutyens.
More pictures of Thiepval in August: Photoset
North West Regional Studies
October 31st, 2009
Dominic Roberts of CiA will be talking about Architecture and some uses of Tradition: Projects by Francis Roberts Architects at the Centre for North West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster on Saturday 7 November, 2009. The talk forms part of the Architecture of the North West study day.
Centre for North West Regional Studies
Picture: Summer Hill under construction. Francis Roberts Architects.
Architect, client and tour de force
October 21st, 2009
The Times on Architecture School
October 20th, 2009
The avant garde absolutely gushes: TimesOnline
Notes from New York City #3
October 19th, 2009
8. Sacred Space
Guard with dog keeps people off space in front of Seagram Building, Fifth Avenue.
Get too close to Mies and you will be bitten.
9. Gimp Car
Clothes for your automobile.
10. $25,000 for a lampshade
Previous owner JFK Airport, seen in junkshop in NYC.
Andromaca at Palladio’s Teatro Olimpico
October 14th, 2009
I looked forward with great excitement to the recent production of Euripide’s Andromaca at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza. Not necessarily for the performance itself, which is a bit of a grim story especially for a non-Italian-speaking visitor, but for the manner in which the magnificent fixed stage set was to be utilised. The classical street scenes could surely be interpreted as the mythical Greek world.
However, a temporary, naturalistic and organic installation had been placed in front of the permanent set. It did have the aura of a barren and hot land, but, oddly, the drama made no reference to Palladio’s masterpiece.
Contempt
October 7th, 2009
Via The Footnotes of Mad Men, glimpses of the Casa Malaparte in Le Mepris
Notes from New York City #2
October 6th, 2009
4. The hardest thing about cars is getting rid of them.
Multi-storey car park, NY style, approx. $20 per hour.
5. Hi-Line
Disused elevated railway turned into urban park. Tribeca NY.
6. Did it really happen?
Dutchman buys Manhattan for $26 and some beads.
Statue, gift of Netherlands to NY, closer to Staten Island Ferry terminus.
7. Last horse in NY, Hell’s Kitchen, 2009.
Venice Workshop: Week 1
September 28th, 2009
The 10 CiA students (with staff members Sally Stone and Eamonn Canniffe) participating in the international workshop at IUAV in Venice have had a busy first week. A briefing day was followed by two days of fieldtrips to significant archaeological sites and the project sites at Caldonazzo, Riva del Garda and Concordia Sagitarria. International design teams were formed with the other students from Barcelona, Catania and Venice and the projects will be presented in exhibition to a prestigious jury next week. The workshop’s homepage can be visited at THIS LINK…
This year in Venice
September 22nd, 2009
The B.Arch. studio presentations are being held on 22 September 2009. If you would like a preview/reminder of the CiA studio proposal go to THIS LINK
Sally Stone and Eamonn Canniffe are currently participating in a joint architecture/archaeology workshop with schools of architecture from IUAV, Barcelona and Palermo. If you are interested in their architectural and gastronomic adventures, you can follow their Twitter feeds:
Notes from New York City #1
September 14th, 2009
1.
Architect’s home life.
Italian chromed steel electric fan by Enzio Pirali 1953. Donated to MOMA by Philip Johnson 1956.
2.
New Cooper Union Campus Third Ave E7th St by Thomas Mayne of Morphosis opening this week, September 2009.
Mayne’s design, conceived with the belief that space can inspire learning, embodies Cooper Union’s intention to create an academic building that will have the same impact that the Foundation Building had on higher education in 1859 and that our Chrysler Building had on New York architecture in the 1930s George Campbell, President
We don’t have to take this seriously but it does make a great skate board ramp.
3.
Skyscrapers horizontal and vertical
Williamsburg bridge & random NY building.
