Category Archives: Aventinus

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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That Goldfinger Touch

The 2010 RIBA Goldfinger Scholarship has been awarded to Luca Csepely-Knorr to undertake an M.Phil at the MSA. Luca will be studying the work of Bela Rerrich (1881-1932), independent Hungary’s first town planner who had studied under the Windermere garden … Continue reading

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Portuguese Picnic

The inaugural meeting of the European Architectural History Network was held at the beautiful Portuguese city of Guimaraes between 17 and 20 June and fulfilled the organisation’s mission to create a vibrant new forum for the study of the complexity … Continue reading

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The Postmodern Palimpsest: Narrating Contemporary Rome

Eamonn Canniffe has been invited to give a keynote lecture at the above titled conference orgainised by Dominic Holdaway and Filippo Trentin to be held at the University of Warwick in February 2011 The Postmodern Palimpsest: Narrating Contemporary Rome «What … Continue reading

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Jack Coia and The Prototype Pavilion

Our colleague James Robertson continues his doctoral research on Jack Coia with a presentation on his work at the Association of Art Historians Summer Symposium at the Henry Moore Institute (24-25 June 2010) in Leeds. The conference theme is ‘Architectural … Continue reading

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Exhibition opening, all welcome …

You are welcome to join us at at a private view on 4 May from 18:30 until 20:30 of: Archaelogy’s Places and Contemporary Uses: An Exhibition at Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design (MIRIAD!) Manchester Metropolitan … Continue reading

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Living in the European Higher Education Area

The ongoing collaboration of Continuity in Architecture with Instituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and other architectural and archaeological schools coordinated by Margherita Vanore of IUAV reaches a new audience via the ministerial launch of the European Higher Education Area … Continue reading

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How will the new library wear the inevitable black shroud?

As the vultures gather around the soon to be vacated carcass of E. Vincent Harris’s Central Library in Manchester, CiA student Michael Groves has discovered the above stygian description of the then new library’s 1934 context by an anonymous but … Continue reading

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Emerging Face

Charalampos Politakis, a Doctoral student at the Manchester School of Architecture (supervisor Eamonn Canniffe) is currently researching the philosophy of anthropomorphic architecture. Here are some images and text from his Masters project which he completed at the University of Salford … Continue reading

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Outstanding

The Politics of the Piazza has been awarded an Outstanding Academic Title 2009 by Choice the leading source for library-relevant book reviews in the United States. In his review David H. Sachs of Kansas State University describes The Politics of … Continue reading

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Manchester Cathedral dah-dah-dah-daah…

Manchester Cathedral dah-dah-dah-daah You’re bringing me down dah-dah-dah-daah (with apologies to The New Vaudeville Band) Manchester and Salford’s contentious relationship across the River Irwell has always assured a clear, if far from beautiful, distinction between the two cities. The long … Continue reading

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Venice Workshop: Week 1

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 … Continue reading

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