Architecture

CASA was founded in 1992 and early projects included the construction of a computer model of Bath, funded by J. Sainsbury plc, and computer models of the buildings of Leon Battista Alberti for an international exhibition held in Mantua in 1994. Following from these successes, members of CASA have taken on a selection of significant projects in terms of prestige and research quality. At inception the group comprised Alan Day, Vaughan Hart and Robert Tavernor. Mark Wilson Jones joined in 2000, Michael Forsyth in 2001 and Taina Rikala in 2003. Tavernor left in early 2005 to take up a chair at the London School of Economics, while Paul Richens will join upon taking up his appointment in August 2005 as Professor in Architectural Computing. The current Director is Mark Wilson Jones.

The Astoft collection of buildings of England.

History of English Architecture.

London Buildings and Monuments illustrated in the Victorian Web.

"Architecture is two things: it is service and art. Hence the tension between structure and appearance, function and form. Hence too the discord built into that eternal triangle: commodity, firmness and delight. Therein -- at all times -- lies the architect's dilemma. But during the nineteenth century that dilemma was compounded first by changing demands , secondly by advancing technology, and thirdly by the whose phenomenon of historicism: the multiplication of stylistic choice. The result was a crisis in confidence. In religion, literature and philosophy the mid-Victorian period was an age of doubt. So too with architecture: even the greatest Victorian architecture was shot through with uncertainty. That uncertainty was the dilemma of style."

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