Category Archives: Friends & Acquaintances

The Edgar Wood Project

Andy Marshall (‘fotofacade’) has started a flickr group called The Edgar Wood Project as a repository of images of buildings by er…. Edgar Wood. Andy is an architectural photographer and blogs at fotofacade.

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Festschrift for John Archer

Thursday 11 January saw Continuity in Architecture attending a celebration for the eightieth birthday of the architectural historian John Archer. John is a former lecturer at the University of Manchester School of Architecture, and the event was hosted by the … Continue reading

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The Schiffli Machine

Video of the machine in action Our friend in embroidery, Melanie Miller, is encouraging wider use of the amazing Schiffli machine currently unloved and underused in the embroidery workshop. She has initiated a research project which involves inviting practitioners from … Continue reading

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Events, dear boy, events…

Continuity in Architecture hosted an afternoon of guest lectures on Thursday 26 October. Three speakers brought the clear light of practice into the stygian unknowingness of the Cordingley Lecture Theatre and demonstrated to an intent audience that the field of … Continue reading

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Eighties Electronica

Victor Dadras, now an architect in New York City, was a friend of Eamonn Canniffe’s at Harvard. We see him here, with his band ‘Dada’ in the ‘eighties, indulging in clowns, balls, bridges and locked doors in alleyways. see also: … Continue reading

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Toronto Project

John Johnston formerly a studio tutor at Manchester School of Architecture now finds himself in Durham, North Carolina, where he is setting up a practice and doing some independent property development. John’s professional life has taken him from Texas to … Continue reading

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