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LECTURES + EVENTS 99 spring

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28.1.99 pub quiz
30.1.99 building visit
06.2.99 liberty hall
18.2.99 sergison bates
20.2.99 social housing
04.3.99 aai awards 1999 exhibition
06.3.99 aai awards visit
11.3.99 viaplana and pinon
13.3.99 grafton architects
25.3.99 bernard tschumi
27.3.99 boyd kelly

PUB QUIZ

date: Thursday 28 January 1999
time: 8.00 pm
venue: landsdowne tennis club

In aid of the architects benevolent society

BUILDING VISIT

GRAFTON ARCHITECTS
date: Saturday 30 January 1999
time: 11.00 am
venue: a smallhouse, mountpleasant avenue,
corner bessborough parade As a preview ro their upcoming RIAI exhibition in March, we are delighted to visit Grafton Architects latest building. The program is contained within a brick volume on Mountpleasant Ave. and concealed behind a granite screen to Bessborough Parade. The internal spaces are stacked and pushed to the outer edges.

BUILDING VISIT

DESMOND REA O'KELLY MRIAI
date: Saturday 06 February 1999
time: 11.00 am
venue: liberty hall
Approaching its thirty-fifth birthday, Liberty Hall is older than most of the members of the AAI. this is an opportune moment, now that the city is poised for vertical expansion, to reappraise this building by which others are measured. We will be accompanied by its architect and engineer Desmond Rea O'Kelly MRIAI and by Brian Hogan MRIAI currently involved in refurbishing parts of the building.

LECTURE

SERGISON BATES ARCHITECTS
date: Thursday 18 February 1999
time: 9.00 pm
venue: riai 8 merrion square
Sergison Bates are a young practice whose work is directed towards a broad range of social and public projects, arts projects and residential commissions. The practice has won prizes in several international competitions for public buildings and urban scale developments. They have lectured extensively, and their work has been published worldwde. Jonathan Sergison studied at the AA and has worked with David Chipperfield and Tony Fretton. Stephen Bates studied in Liverpool Polytechnic and the RCA. He has worked with Fernando Villavecchia in Barcelona and Bennetts Associates in London. They are unit masters in the AA.

BUILDING VISIT

GERRY CAHILL ARCHITECTS
date: Saturday 20 February 1999
time: 11.00 am
venue: social housing, new street, dublin 8
"co-operative housing could contribute to the solution of housing needs in gerneral . . . and could help halt the decline in inner city population through rekindling belief in the value of the old area"
Back to the street, 1980, Gerry Cahill

RECEPTION

AAI AWARDS 1999 EXHIBITION
date: Thursday 4 March 1999
time: 6.30 pm
venue: photographic archive, temple bar, dublin 2
The awards will be formally announced together with the result of the second year competition. The evening will be opened by Theo Dorgan, poet and member of this year's assessment panel.

EXHIBITION

AAI AWARDS VISIT
date: Saturday 6 March 1999
time: 2.00 pm
venue: photographic archive, temple bar, dublin 2
The award winners will introduce their work.

LECTURE

VIAPLANA AND PINON
date: Thursday 11 March 1999
time: 8.00 pm
venue: dit, bolton stree, LT 259
Viaplana and Pinon, sometime collaborators with Enrico Miralles, make an uncompromising architecture that is minimal in its use of material, yet expressive in its form. They have become renowned for making brave statements, like the Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, where three wings of a nineteenth century hospital are completed by the addition, almost intrusion of a fourth wing, a glass walled building, which serves to redefine the courtyard, to organise the circulation for the building, and to give the city a new public room at roof level, the Sala Mirador. We look forward to the rare chance of seeing these architects present their work in public.

BUILDING VISIT

GRAFTON ARCHITECTS
date: Saturday 13 March 1999
time: 11.00 am
venue: 13 denzille lane, dublin 2
Grafton Architects' latest work, at 13 Denzille Lane, occupies a long narrow mews plot to the rear of a georgian house at 13 Merrion Square. The functions of the old and new buildings are interconnected, and this relationship is established as a route through a series of gardens, terraces and courts. The new building provides a preview theatre with associated reception entered from an external stair which cuts a slot from street-level forecourt to the second level courtyard around which the office and the apartments are arranged. The lane elevation, constructed of sandblasted glass planking frtamed in stainless steel, is developed as an abstract screen providing privacy, ventilation and specific views. The semi-inductrial nature of the screen resonates with the other commercial and light industrial buildings on the lane. The garden elevation, by contrast, is clad in cedar boarding, again framed in stainless steel.s

LECTURE

BERNARD TSCHUMI
Peter Rice Memorial Lecture
date: Thursday 25 March 1999
time: 8.00 pm
venue: dit, bolton street, LT 259
Working from a strong theoretical base, developed in the seventies during the making of projects like the Manhattan Transcripts, and teaching in both London and New York, Tschumi made his winning entry for the Parc de la Villette competition in 1982. Since this time, he has consitantly made projects, competition entries, buildings and books which challenge and develop architectural thought.
s'I always conside the place of the concept as also the place of experimentation in construction. If you say that architecture is the materialisation of a concept, the place that the concept should be strongest should also be the place of its materialisation, which in other words is its construction.'

BUILDING VISIT

BOYD KELLY
date: Saturday 27 march 1999
time: 11.00 am
venue: mews house, cambridge lane
'we wish to remove all unnecessary distraction in architecture, nothing more, nothing less'
A restrictive site on a laneway in Rathmines was purchased by three parties in 1995 in order to build three houses for their own use. The space are slipped into three simple concrete volumes each 5m x 5m x 10m to form an expansive horizontal spatial experience. Understatement, simplicity and economy prevail in plan, detail and materials, creating pure spaces and maximising dimesion. The sleeping accomdation in each house is on the ground floor, the living platform above is a simple volume with access onto a roof terrace. Light floods the rooms through large sliding glazed panels in each end elevation, a rofflight addresses the sky and marks the vertical circulation within.

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