Category Archives: Friends & Acquaintances

The Way We Live Now

Symposium: Thursday March 9th 2017, 2-6pm Benzie Lecture Theatre (403) – Manchester School of Architecture The nature of the home has, over the last generation, radically changed. Many of us are no longer able to live, or even desire to live … Continue reading

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Adaptable Modernism

It is very sad to see that the demolition of the Sports Centre in Grange-over-Sands is about to begin. The building is/was one of a number of sports facilities that Hodder Associates created, all of which expressed a connection with … Continue reading

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Architecture professors folding, stapling, singing

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

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BIM ’69, The Integrated Team

This is the cover of the June 1969 issue of BDP Preston in-house magazine ‘Contact’. BDP was founded in Preston and pioneered a team-based, democratic approach to building design in the era of the mandatory fee scale. In this illustration … Continue reading

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Keeping his head

Louis Hellman, cartoonist, at Scarpa’s Canova Plaster Cast Gallery, Possagno. Circa 1990.

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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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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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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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The Lycian Way

  Our good friend and erstwhile colleague Neil Stevenson has caught the mid-life pilgrimage bug. His latest cycle journey was along the Lycian Way in Turkey, a route littered with archaeological remains, interesting lodgings and good food. Neil’s Lycian Way … Continue reading

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