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LECTURES + EVENTS 99 autumn

07.10.99 architecture exposed
08.10.99 maarten van severen
09.10.99 grafton architects
09.10.99 millenium bridge
21.10.99 muf
30.10.99 national sculpture factory
04.11.99 forum
11.11.99 jurgen patzak-poor
20.11.99 richard murphy
23.11.99 beatriz colomina
27.11.99 belvedere college
03.12.99 student award lecture
11.12.99 lincoln gate

EXHIBITION

ARCHITECTURE EXPOSED: Projections around the city
date: 7 - 9 october
The AAI will reveal the first body of work from the "Architecture Exposed" collection. The exhibition will take the form of projections in various surprise locations around the city. The projected images will be the initail outtakes from the material that has been submitted to the AAI over the last few weeks. The project was conceived as a means to let architectural ideas breathe freely within the medium of photography. It is hoped that 'Photographs taken by people who design buildings' will expose any common preoccupations and conversely different ways of seeing. The participants will be invited to take part in a workshop later on during the year as part of the preocess keading to the definitive exhibition.

LECTURE

MAARTEN VAN SEVEREN
date: friday 8 october 1999
time: 7pm
venue: Ussher Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin
In co-operation with the History of Art Department, Trinity College
Sponsored by the Ministry of the Flemish Community
Born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1956. Attended the St Lucas School of Architecture (1975-9) at Ghent; worked in the offices of various architects (1982-5) before spending a year in Toyko producing videos on Kazua Shinihara, Toyo Ito, Tadao Ando and the city of Toyko. Established his studio-workshop in Ghent, where he designs and makes furniture and fittings for the Viaa dall'Ava, Paris and for the house at Floirac, Bordeaux, both by Rem Koolhaas.

EXHIBITION WALKAROUND

GRAFTON ARCHITECTS
date: saturday 9 october 1999
time: 11am
venue: architecture centre, riai, 8 merrion square, dublin 2
Following building visits earlier in the year to the Hall House and to 13 Merrion Square / Denzille Lane, the exhibition coincides with the publication of a Gandon Editions monograph on Grafton Architects. The architects will discuss their work through an informal discussion around the exhibition.

SITE VISIT

MILLENIUM BRIDGE, HOWLEY HARRINGTON ARCHITECTS
date: saturday 9 october 1999
time: 2pm
venue: temple bar gallery
The site visit will be preceded by two short talks at Temple Bar Gallery to celebrate the new Liffey bridge: 'Ford, Ferry & Bridge: pedestrian crossings of the Liffey through history' by Professor Sean de Courcy; and 'Design and Construction process of the Millenium Bridge' by Robert Myers of Price & Myers Structural Engineers London. The site visit will then take place accompanied by Sean Harrington of Howley Harrington Architects, followed by a reception at Temple Bar Gallery. For reasons of Insurance, children are not permitted on site visits.

LECTURE

PLEASURE GARDEN OF THE UTILITIES
date: thursday 21 october 1999
time: 7pm
venue: temple bar gallery
Muf is a collaborative practice of art and architecture committed to working in the public realm. The practice was formed in 1994 by artist Katherine Clarke and architects Juliet Bidgood and Liza Fior. Architect Cathy Howley joined in 1994, artist Ashley McCormick in 1996 and architect Melanie Dodd in 1998. The practice is experienced in extending the collaborative process of working to include the client and client consultancy or user / audience, as well as experts in the subject areas of the project. muf have worked with the London Boroughs of Southwark, Hackney and Barking, and with the City Councils of Stoke-on-Trent, St Alban's, Walsall and Liverpool, and with the Scarman Trust. http://www.muf.co.uk

SITE VISITS in CORK

NATIONAL SCULPTURE FACTORY / CRAWFORD MUNICIPAL ART GALLERY
date: saturday 30 october 1999
time: 11am
venue: heuston station
Both buildings will add to the city's strong reputation for contemporary architecture. We invite you to join us and meet in the concourse of Heuston Station at 11am, boarding the 11.15am train which arrives at 2.05pm, and returning on the 5.30 train arriving back in Dublin at 8.05pm. Saturday day return �32, students with travelsave stamp �22.50. For reasons of Insurance, children are not permitted on site visits.

FORUM

POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION
date: thursday 4 november 1999
time: 7pm
venue: riai, 8 merrion square, dublin 2
This round-table discussion will examine the pragmatics, potentials and pitfalls of further education in architecture. Aimed particularly at graduates considering enrolment in the next academic year (2000/2001), this forum will bring together people with experience of different schools and programs primarily in Britain, Europe, and Anerica. The session will be chaired by Merritt Bucholz, graduate of Cornell University, studio tutor UCD, and architect in private practice in Dublin.

LECTURE

JÜRGEN PATZAK-POOR and ANTJE BUCHHOLZ
date: thursday 11 november 1999
time: 7pm
Red Room, UCD School of Architecture, Richview, Clonskeagh
Shifting the View: Documentation of the Commonplace
BAR B�ro f�r Architektur und Raumplanung, Berlin & Los Angeles

LECTURE

RICHARD MURPHY
date: Thursday 18 November
time: 8pm
venue: 8 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
Hugh Pearman coined the phrase �maximalist� for Richard Murphy�s work: that the greatest architectural effects are obtained from the smallest and least promising contexts. Richard Murphy defines his goals as to make architecture equally of its place and of its time. The projects of his office illustrate that approach looking equally at careful contextual responses to designing within and adjacent to existing buildings, and also constructing new buildings within the contexts of established landscape and urban patterns.

Richard Murphy architects this year won an RIAI award for a house in Kileenaran. It is described as "an Englishman�s attempt to understand the materials of the Irish countryside and also the form of the traditional architecture whilst at the same time make a contemporary response to both landscape and lifestyle." The architect also notes that "much of the Irish landscape has been devastated in recent years by indiscriminate bungalow development. This house, situated approximately three metres from Brandy Harbour, an inlet of Galway Bay on the west coast, is a retrospective essay in what might have been."

Richard Murphy was educated at Newcastle and Edinburgh Universities. Before founding the practice in 1991, he worked for Simpson & Brown Architects, Edinburgh, MacCormac Jamieson & Pritchard Architects London and directed the Edinburgh office of Alsop Lyall & Stormer Architects. He has also held a teaching position in Edinburgh University, during which time he completed extensive research into the work of the Italian architect Carlo Scarpa at the Castelvecchio Museum Verona.

SEE WEBSITE http://www.murphyarch.u-net.com/

TEGRAL CRITIC LECTURE

BEATRICE COLOMINA
date: thursday 23 november 1999
time: 7pm
venue: Ussher Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin
In co-operation with the History of Art Department, Trinity College
Beatriz Colomina is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Princeton University. She is author of Privacy and Publicity : Modern Architecture as Mass Media and editor of Sexuality and Space and Architecture Production. She is currently working on a book on the relationships between war and modern architecture.

SITE VISIT

BELVEDERE COLLEGE
Murray O'Laoire Architects
date: saturday 27 november 1999
time: 11am
Belvedere College, Great Denmark Street, Dublin 1
Please note: Connolly Station site visit cancelled
Extension to Belvedere College, Murray O'Laoire Architects
meet at Denmark Street entrance
For reasons of Insurance, children are not permitted on site visits.

LECTURE

STUDENT AWARD LECTURE: CEDRIC PRICE
date: friday 3 december 1999
time: 7pm
venue: school of architecture, ucd, richview, clonskeagh
In collaboration with DIT, QUB, UCD Schools of Architecture
Title: A skills and learning hive
Task: Design an enclosure or enclosures that, through their siting and detailing, will enable the establishment of a Skills & Learning Hive within the site. This Hive should encourage the young of Stoneybatter to teach their Elders 'New Tricks'

SITE VISIT

LINCOLN GATE - CEDRIC PAYNE ARCHITECTS
date: saturday 11 december 1999
time: 11am
venue: lincoln gate
Meet at Lincoln Gate entrance to Trinity College, on Lincoln Place adjacent Dental Hospital
For reasons of Insurance, children are not permitted on site visits.

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