Station Semiotics

17-23 St. Ann's Square, Manchester

"This is a wonderful book"

This is a wonderful book. I would highly recommend it to anyone who has traveled to Italy or would like to, to anyone interested in Italy in general and it’s fabled sense of la dolce vita, and to anyone interested in cities, history, architecture, art or the impact of technology on social life. Canniffe provides an excellent history of the political meaning of the Italian piazza from the Roman forum to the postmodern. The book reflects years of research transformed into a cohesive well-written text filled with beautiful photographs of Italian piazzas. The authors enthusiasm for and extensive direct experience in piazzas throughout Italy is something that all readers will appreciate, regardless of the particular interests that bring them to the book.
Rating: 5 / 5

Professor David Vogler of Wheaton College (Norton, MA) was kind enough to post the above comment on THE POLITICS OF THE PIAZZA here. David used the book in his paper Can you tell me where a person can go to find a decent piazza in this town? An Italian piazza and quality of life which he allowed me to publish here

Northern Neo-Grec

41-43 Faulkner Street, Manchester (1846) by Thomas Fish Taylor

Rus in Urbe

Ste-Genevieve (Panthéon) by Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713-80)

Archaelogy's Places and Contemporary Uses: An Exhibition

Venue: Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design
Righton Building, All Saints, Manchester Metropolitan University

4 May to 14 May 2010

Come along to the private view 4 May from 18:30 until 20:30




Involving students from Manchester, Venice, Barcelona and Catania.






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 compliation of papers written by the lecturers who were directly involved in the project will be published in May 2010. Visit the project website.



The project also features on the website European Higher Education Area : celebrating a decade of UK engagement



The exhibition is an event of the Manchester Architecture and Design Festival

E. Vincent Harris: Central Reference Library, Manchester 1930-34