Exhibition
Launch
Publication
End-of-year Exhibition
The UCD School of Architecture end-of-year exhibition opens on Friday May 25th at 6pm. The new yearbook publication, including a record of many of the School's centenary activities, will be available at the opening.
The School will also launch its new graduate programmes – the M.Arch, the M.Arch (advanced entry) and new taught masters in Conservation & Heritage, Energy & Environment, and Urban Design.
Exhibition
Social
Open Call: We had an idea about the future
OPEN CALL: WE HAD AN IDEA ABOUT THE FUTURE
Proposals by past and upcoming architecture graduates
Deadline for applications: Tuesday 8th May 2012
Proposals are invited for stimulating new or existing work to inhabit a number of rooms in Earlsfort Terrace this June.
In 1911, the first students enrolled to study architecture at UCD. This year, there are over 1000 enrolled in architecture schools across the island of Ireland. As the number of graduates expands the capacity and thinking of architecture continues to develop. Every day designers propose and develop new ideas for how the future might be. The exhibition ‘We had an idea about the future’ will celebrate the inherent optimism of this imaginative process.
Past or future graduates from any architecture school in Ireland (Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland) are encouraged to submit a proposal that responds to this exhibition premise.
Proposals will be accepted in any medium and work that explores unexpected and engaging ways of disseminating design will be preferenced. Submissions that interact with the context of the exhibition space, a series of rooms at Earlsfort Terrace, are encouraged (images available on website). An optional site visit to Earlsfort Terrace will take place on Saturday 28th April.
Individual and group applications are invited from those living in Ireland or abroad. Collaboration across disciplines is welcomed.
Applications should be made via email. For full submission details see:
http://www.wehadanideaaboutthefuture.com
Deadline for application is 5pm Tuesday 8th May 2012.
The exhibition will open with a large-scale event on Saturday 16th June to mark the closing of the Centenary year of the School of Architecture UCD. The exhibition will run until Sunday 24th June at Earlsfort Terrace.
This event is taking place on the occasion of the Centenary of the School of Architecture UCD. Until the start of the 1980s, Earlsfort Terrace was the home of UCD School of Architecture.
Lecture
Eileen Gray: New Environmental Perspectives
Eileen Gray may be Ireland’s most famous designer, but it is time we recognise her achievements as a pioneering environmental architect.
This lecture will be preceded by a short presentation about the University of Sydney and opportunities for exchange.
Daniel Ryan is Associate Lecturer in Sustainable Design at the University of Sydney, Australia. He studied architecture at UCD and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Sydney, looking at prototypes of bioclimatic architecture.
Daniel Ryan’s visit is supported by the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning as part of the Master of Architecture exchange agreement between the University of Sydney and University College Dublin.
Tuesday 10 April 2012 at 1:15 PM in the Red Room, Richview.
Lecture
The Richview Society presents Owen Hatherley – Form Follows Function Follows Ideology
Presented by the Richview Society, with guest speaker Owen Hatherley, 'Form follows function follows ideology: The magnificent play of volumes under light under capitalism' will take place at 7pm in the Red Room. All are welcome.
Owen Hatherley is a writer and journalist with a particular interest in architecture, politics and culture. Hatherley is the author of Militant Modernism (Zero Books, 2009), A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Verso, 2010) and Uncommon (Zero Books, 2011) and a regular contributor to Building Design, New Statesman, New Humanist, as well as having written for other publications including The Guardian and Icon.
Symposium
Architecture for Society: Practices and Projects
Please note: This event is booked out with a long waiting list (events@ucdarchitecture.ie) and there will be no walk-in spaces available.
As part of its centenary celebrations, UCD School of Architecture is hosting a one-day symposium looking at how architecture engages with society. The expanded scope of practice and the renewed potential of projects in pursuing societal change will be demonstrated through presentations by UCD graduates and invited guests whose work ranges from public service to self-build to prototyping to NGO work to advocacy planning.
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Keynote Speakers
Erlend Blakstad Haffner, Fantastic Norway
Lisbet Harboe, Oslo School of Architecture and Design
Speakers
Alan Mee Architects
Architecture for Humanity
Gerry Cahill, GCA
Peter Carroll, A2 Architects
Eddie Conroy, County Architect, South Dublin County Council
Killian Doherty, School of Architecture, KIST
Nuala Flood, TrinityHaus
Ali Grehan, City Architect, Dublin City Council
Michael Hayes, UCD Architecture
Orla Murphy, UCD Architecture
Dr Aileen O’Gorman, School of Applied Social Science UCD
Michael Pike, GKMP Architects
Practice
Bláithín Quinn, TransColonia
Angela Rolfe, OPW
A Spring Evening of Music and Song at Richview
Join the UCD School of Architecture’s Centenary Celebrations this spring with a special evening of music and song in the unique setting of the Memorial Hall, UCD Richview Campus, Clonskeagh, Dublin 14 on Thursday, 22nd March at 7pm.
Relax and enjoy Desmond Earley's performance of two French harpsichord works. The UCD Choral Scholars will then entertain you with a selection of vocal works, a treat not to be missed. The evening will conclude with a delightful performance by Eoin Dillon, Graham Watson, Steve Larkin and Daire Bracken with a selection of modern and 18th century Irish traditional tunes. Wine and nibbles reception at the interval.
Tickets are €35 and proceeds go to the UCD Architecture Centenary Fund. Tickets (prebooking essential) are available here or from 086-2746153.
This concert has been generously sponsored by Euroheat and Hackett Reprographics. This project is supported by the Irish Research Council, IRCHSS. More information at Music Room Reflections.