The Lives of Spaces. Ireland at Venice 2008
EXHIBITION PUBLICATION: Visit The Lives of Spaces website and get the book of the exhibition at the reduced price of €15! Click on the banner to the right to go directly to the site.
ABOUT:
This exhibition proceeds from the modest proposition that the designed spaces which architects produce play a crucial role in supporting, shaping and framing our lives. The spaces chosen for inclusion are not precious, pristine places, removed from the ordinary business of life - they are right in the thick of it, providing accommodation for living, for working, for creative production, for institutional support, for education, for leisure, for collective action. The exhibition’s title, The Lives of Spaces, deliberately invites multiple interpretations, suggesting that, while spaces can contain many lives, they can equally live many lives themselves. A Culture Ireland initiative, in partnership with the Arts Council and the Irish Embassy in Rome, and sponsored by the RIAI, the exhibition was commissioned and curated by Nathalie Weadick, Director of the Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) and Hugh Campbell, Senior Lecturer in Architecture at UCD. Representing Ireland at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition at Venice 2008, the exhibition occupied the first floor of the Palazzo Giustinian-Lolin, opposite the Accademia. The scale, character and decoration of these typically Venetian rooms provided a setting that compliments the exhibition’s theme.
For more information on the participants and themes of the exhibition, visit The Lives of Spaces website by clicking on the link to the right of this page.
LATEST NEWS: The Lives of Spaces will be touring nationally and internationally in the coming year. Visit the site regularly for updates.
LISTEN: In a short radio interview, co-curator Professor Hugh Campbell talks about The Lives of Spaces, commenting upon the projects, the choice of film as a medium and the importance of sound in the experience of space.
Hugh Campbell talks about The Lives of Spaces
DOWNLOAD: Get the introductory article to The Lives of Spaces, by Dr Gillian Jein, published in the Irish Arts Review, August 2008.
An introduction to The Lives of Spaces by Gillian Jein
COMING SOON: The IAF are in the process of bringing The Lives of Spaces exhibition home to Ireland, venues and dates will appear on this site as soon as they have been confirmed.
Images:
The team. Photo by Jean-Pierre Jolivet
Grafton Architects, Anchor and Animation. Photo by Dara McGrath
Gerry Cahill Architects, Sanctuary and Congregation. Photo by Dara McGrath
Dara McGrath in assc with Robinson McIlwaine Architects, Deconstructing the Maze. Photo by Dara McGrath
TAKA, Mnemonic Tectonics. Photo by Dara McGrath
dePaor Architects, Delay. Photo by Dara McGrath
Simon Walker and Patrick Lynch, Bothar Bui. Photo by Dara McGrath
Grainne Hassett, Brookfield Community Centre. Photo by Dara McGrath
O’Donnell+Tuomey, An Galaeras. Photo by Sarah Jane McGee
McCullough Mulvin, Real Unreal. Photo by Sarah Jane McGee.
