VENICE: The exploration of urban space commences with proposals for interventions in the campi of Venice. The structures are required to contain a café counter, advertising for political and commercial use, an atm, a public lavatory and an electronic information point, and to reconfigure the space in which they stand. VICENZA: In the 500th anniversary of his birth, proposals are sought to complement Andrea Palladio’s Basilica (1546) in the Piazza dei Signori in Vicenza. Students are required to provide a critical response to adjoin this urban masterpiece in the form of a new building, in the context of a clearly defined major civic space. VERONA: Finally you are invited to design a room from which fair Verona can be surveyed. Located at an upper level, the room is expected to contain all that is necessary to appreciate the view across the city.
Eamonn Canniffe leads the Architecture Research Centre and the MA in Architecture + Urbanism at the Manchester School of Architecture. He was educated in Architecture at Cambridge and Harvard Universities. In 1996 he held a Rome Scholarship in the Fine Arts at the British School at Rome. Between 1986 and 1998 he taught at the University of Manchester School of Architecture, and between 1998 and 2006 at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture. He is the author of Urban Ethic: Design in the Contemporary City (Routledge 2006) (Chinese edition 城市伦理--当代城市设计 2013) and The Politics of the Piazza: the history and meaning of the Italian square (Ashgate 2008). He is co-author (with Tom Jefferies) of Manchester Architecture Guide (1999) and (with Peter Blundell Jones) of Modern Architecture through Case Studies 1945-1990 (Architectural Press 2007), (Chinese edition 现代建筑的演变 1945--1990年 2009) (Spanish edition Modelos de la Arquitectura Moderna -Volumen II 1945-1990 2013). For a number of years he has served as Architecture Series Editor for Ashgate Publishing.