Category Archives: Name Dropping

The room has been evicted from the house

The 6th Modern Interiors Research Centre Conference was held at Kingston University last week. The focus was upon histories and heritage. Among the interesting collection of papers was a description of the reconstruction of the Hotel de Ville in Paris. … Continue reading

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A Harvard Colloquium

The last time Eamonn Canniffe (of CiA) was at Harvard, Peter Eisenman was a spring chicken. You can hear Eamonn speak about his current book at the De Bosis Colloquium in Italian Studies at the Department of Romance Languages and … Continue reading

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Harvard in Springtime

Eamonn Canniffe has been invited to present his recent book “The Politics of the Piazza” at the prestigious De Bosis Colloquium in Italian Studies at Harvard University Department of Romance Languages and Literatures during the Spring Semester 2009. The Politics … Continue reading

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Peter Eisenman or Steve Martin?

Summer 1983: A restaurant in the North End of Boston with students from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Where are they now?

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Social whirl

Alexis of Hot Chip at the Le Corbusier exhibition, Liverpool (25 October 2008)   Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester to open the Flights of Fancy exhibition decrying minimalism and other “delusions of blandeur” and pleased to be … Continue reading

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Name Dropping

In what can only be described as an architectural celebrity bumper period for the northwest, we have been honoured by a number of distinguished guests. Peter Eisenman delivered the RIBA Annual Discourse 2008 at the John Moores University. His lecture … Continue reading

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Let us now praise famous men…

Revisiting Roma Interrotta. (Standard CiA camera salute – Ed.)

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Eisenman in Liverpool!

OK, the main event is obviously the opening of the Corb exhibition in Lutyens’ crypt (the subtitle ‘The Art of Architecture’ doesn’t inspire) but Peter Eisenman has got to be worth a trip. Peter Eisenman: Architecture and the Cultural Project … Continue reading

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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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Robin Hood Gardens again

Following the post by Aventinus below more writers express their scepticism about the qualities of the Smithsons’ Robin Hood Gardens: Part iv and Fantastic Journal and Neighbourhoods. Building Design are pushing 1000 names. Were you emboldened?

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Loos Haus

In the years since our first visit to their Hotel-Restaurant the Steiner Family have, every Christmas, sent us a sprig of vegetation from the forest surrounding their building, better known to architects as the Khuner House by Adolf Loos. Guests … Continue reading

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The Role of the Humanities in Design Creativity

Eamonn Canniffe recently participated in the above titled conference at the the University of Lincoln, hosted by Professor Nicholas Temple. Keynote speakers included Karsten Harries, Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and author of “The Ethical Function of Architecture”, Dalibor … Continue reading

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