IAF HIGHLIGHTS

Watch the Pecha Kucha Night Dublin presentations now!

Posted on Monday, March 1st, 2010

Watch

You can now watch the Pecha Kucha Night presentations on our podcast page. The following Pecha Kucha Night #1 presentations are now available to watch: Will St Leger - Artivist TAKA - Architecture Cian Hallinan - Journalist Now What? - Architecture Gisele Scanlon - Author Conor & David - Graphic Designers Fountainhead - Digital Culturstruction - Architecture Click here to w ...

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Lives and Spaces: Art, Architecture and the Public Symposium

Posted on Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Lives

The Lives of Spaces was Ireland's entry to the 11th Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2008 and the exhibition can currently be seen in Ormeau Baths Gallery in Belfast as part of its international tour. To coincide with the exhibition reaching Belfast, OBG and PLACE present a major symposium: Lives and Spaces: Art, Architecture and the Public, which will be held on Thursday 25th March. Thi ...

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Call for Papers: AHRA Conference November 2010

Posted on Monday, March 1st, 2010

Call

The Kent School of Architecture, at the University of Kent, is hosting this year's AHRA Conference (Architectural Humanities Research Association) and have put out a call for papers. This year's theme is SCALE: Scale is a word which underlies much of architectural and urban design practice, its history and theory, and its technology. Its connotations have traditionally been linked w ...

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Recycled Space: Art/Architecture Workshop

Posted on Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Recycled

Artist and architect Blaithin Quinn will hold a workshop based on her current project Recycled Space on Saturday 6 March in Dublin. The workshop will be of interest to artist, architects, other creative practitioners as well as members of the public who have an interest in architecture. Recycled Space - Concept A surplus of vacant retail, office and residential space has become available ...

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Survey of the work of Irish artist Anne Tallentire includes collaboration with architect Dominic Stevens

Posted on Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Survey

A survey exhibition of key works by Irish artist Anne Tallentire, created over the last ten years, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 17 February 2010. This, and other things, 1999-2010 brings together two of Tallentire’s earlier works as well as four of her most recent pieces, created in response to the environment at IMMA. Nowhere else, The Readers, Document ...

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Aoibhneas Children’s Centre Architectural Competition launched

Posted on Friday, February 19th, 2010

Aoibhneas

Aoibhneas and the RIAI (Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland) are delighted to launch the architectural competition for the design of a children's centre on the existing site of Aoibhneas Women and Children's Refuge in Coolock, Dublin. Aoibhneas aims to provide a specialised, child-centred service, housed in an innovative building using cutting edge design to meet the many needs of ...

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PechaKucha organisers in worldwide drive to raise funds for Haiti

Posted on Friday, February 5th, 2010

PechaKucha

In a matter of seconds, thousands of lives and dreams were destroyed in Haiti. In response, the global PechaKucha family is coming together with Architecture for Humanity to lend a hand in rebuilding Haiti. On Feb. 20, the 277 cities that host PechaKucha events worldwide will converge to present one continuous 24-hour edition of PechaKucha Night. Kicking off at SuperDeluxe in Tokyo, wh ...

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Arts Council publishes research on Public Engagement with Architecture

Posted on Friday, January 29th, 2010

Arts

In 2008 the Arts Council commissioned research into 'Public Engagement with Architecture in the Republic of Ireland'. This report was commissioned with the intention of advancing the commitments set out for architecture in Partnership for the Arts. The report which was recently published includes a number of proposed options for enhancing support for public engagement with architecture whic ...

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120 Architects work with 1,500 Students on IAF Education Programme ‘A Space for Learning’

Posted on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

120

The Irish Architecture Foundation has kicked off its new education programme with A Space for Learning, a design competition to challenge current thinking on school design, where architects collaborate with the end-users of educational spaces - the students. A Space for Learning features more than 1,500 students in 90 schools, currently working with 120 architects around the country to desi ...

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The Lives of Spaces in Belfast: 12 February to 27 March

Posted on Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

The

The Lives of Spaces exhibition will open on Thursday 11 February in the Ormeau Baths Gallery in Belfast. The Lives of Spaces began as an installation at the 11th Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2008 and has been touring ever since. The exhibition contains 9 film based projects, each exploring the central role of space in society, from domestic to public and social to personal. Also e ...

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