CONTINUITY IN ARCHITECTURE

Continuity in Architecture is delighted to announce the opening of an important exhibition of twelve projects from the Erasmus Intensive Workshop held in Venice in Autumn 2011. The show features the work of post-graduate students from the CiA Unit of Manchester School of Architecture, collaborating with students and professors from Granada and Barcelona (Spain), Venice and Catania (Italy), and Oulo (Finland). The programme is in its third year and was established to explore the adaptation of archaeological sites for modern purposes. This year extraordinary sites of ancient civilisations in south-west Sicily - in Scicli, Syracuse, Paliké and Camarina - were the inspiration for dramatic design interventions in the landscape that redefined and reinterpreted place.The exhibition will be in the RIBA Hub, Cube Gallery on Portland Street from 26 April - 18 May 2012.

Il Redentore from Zaterre.

In the spirit of the Collage City Unité/Uffizi comparison: Piazza San Marco transformed into Preston Bus Station.

Venezia, Dorsoduro.

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

On the Ponte dei Miracoli, Venice. Light; fragments of view; bridge as public space; the view and the viewer.

Bachelor of Architecture Year 6 Projects 2009-2010

Following the students’ participation in the workshop Archaeology’s Places & Contemporary Uses the students chose sites in Venice for their major projects.

Slideshow of Year 6 Drawings and Models

Students: Peter Brown, Christopher Brown-Colbert, Sophie Dean, Rachel Galpin, Emma Gander, Nur Liyana Amer Hamzah, Marshal Han, Wan Nurul Huda, William Lau, Kurt Law, Luke McDonald, David Platt, Alex Pritchett, Nor Azua Ruslan, Holly Wells, Katie Wright, Aimi Shairah Zamani

Staff: Sally Stone, John Lee, Dominic Roberts, Laura Sanderson, Eamonn Canniffe

Bachelor of Architecture Year 5 Projects 2009-2010

The Year 5 students also visited Venice and following various exploratory projects each produced a building on the theme of ‘Buildings for Home and Social Life’ on a restrictive site on the Campo S. Barnaba.

Slideshow of Year 5 Drawings and Models

Students: Germain Acemah, Umayr Azam, Seb Bayley-Loyn, Stephanie Chan, Lydia Cheung Yuk Wah, Jenny Cook, Thomas Cookson, Simon Davies, Seb Drayson, Michael Groves, Nicholas Gurney, Christina Kim, Wang Lang, Louise McKeown, Nicholas Mitchell, Farah Molotoo, Amy Pearce, David Richards, John Roberts, Josh Rollin, William Saville, Rachael Smith, Lawrence Somerville, Matthew Taylor, Jack Whatley

Staff: Sally Stone, John Lee, Dominic Roberts, Laura Sanderson, Gary Colleran, Neil Stevenson

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 University Righton Building, Cavendish Street, All Saints, Manchester

The exhibition is on from 4 May to 14 May 2010.

This collaborative project was funded by a grant from the Lifelong Learning, Erasmus Intensive Programme and it started with a two-week international student design workshop in the early autumn of 2009 involving students from Continuity in Architecture Manchester, Venice, Barcelona and Catania. The workshop proposals were then exhibited at a conference at the IUAV in November 2009 before reaching Manchester this week. The design workshop was based in Venice and the students and their tutors (including Sally Stone and Eamonn Canniffe of CiA) lived in the city for the two week period. The results of the workshop, and a compilation of papers written by the lecturers who were directly involved in the project will be published in May 2010.

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

Archaeology’s places and contemporary uses

(a link for which appears at the bottom of this page)

This collaborative project was funded by a grant from the Lifelong Learning, Erasmus Intensive Programme and it started with a two-week international student design workshop in the early Autumn of 2009. The workshop proposals were then exhibited at a conference at the IUAV in November 2009 and will form the basis of a travelling exhibition that will be in Manchester in the spring of 2010. The design workshop was based in Venice and the students and their tutors lived in the city for the two week period. The results of the workshop, and a compilation of papers written by the lecturers who were directly involved in the project will be published in May 2010.

The project is covered under the Bologna Process Aims on this website: European Higher Education Area: celebrating a decade of UK engagement

Short notice I know. CiA director Sally Stone is lecturing at IUAV* 3pm today.

As she says in her Twitter feed: Speaking this afternoon at IUAV. Apparently I’m the warm up act for David Chipperfield.

*University IUAV of Venice

IUAV in brief

Update (18:00)

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.

More pictures 

Archaeology’s Places and Contemporary Uses: Website