Image above: Marin Parr, Keadue. Bungalow Bliss, From A Fair Day, 1980-1983.

Bungalow Bliss

Saturday 06 November 2021, 2:30 -3:30 (via Zoom webinar)

Hugh Wallace, Architect ++ Home of the Year, The Great House Revival, My Bungalow Bliss

Adrian Duncan, artist and award-winning writer based in Ireland and Berlin.

Emma McKeagney Artist and researcher

Moderator Laurence Lord, Architect at AP+E and RIAI Future Award winner 2021

Book via Eventbrite link below

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Hugh Wallace is a well-respected, award-winning architect and founding partner of Douglas Wallace Consultants (40 years ago). Hugh has a passion for creative design that engages with its audience to create conversation and comment. He believes that good architecture is essential to create social cohesion and enhance our enjoyment of our landscape and living environment whether in the city or countryside. It’s about creating a smile on our faces - creating a sense of place and belonging.

Hugh’s excitement at being involved as a judge in RTE’s Home of the Year is palpable as he opens the door to the most extraordinary homes in Ireland and seeing the creativity that abounds.  He is also the presenter of RTE’s The Great House Revival, his other passion, the restoration of our architectural heritage from the humble farm buildings to the great houses of Ireland.  My Bungalow Bliss is coming to RTÉ television soon. In this new series presented by Hugh Wallace, four bungalow owners will engage four innovative architects who will redesign their homes making them contemporary and more eco-friendly.

Adrian Duncan is an artist and award-winning writer based in Ireland and Berlin.

His debut novel Love Notes from a German Building Site was published by The Lilliput Press and Head of Zeus in 2019. It won the 2019 John McGahern Book Prize. In 2020 he was shortlisted for the Dalkey Literary Awards Emerging Writer. Duncan's second novel A Sabbatical in Leipzig was published by The Lilliput Press in 2020. It was shortlisted for the Kerry Novel of the Year Award. It will be republished in the UK in late 2022 with Tuskar Rock Press. His collection of short stories Midfield Dynamo was published by The Lilliput Press in March 2021 and was longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize. His third novel, The Geometer Lobachevsky, will appear in April 2022 with The Lilliput Press (IRL) and Tuskar Rock Press (UK).

In 2020/21 he exhibited, in collaboration with Feargal Ward, a large-scale film/sculptural installation work titled The Soil Became Scandinavian, at VISUAL, Carlow. In 2019 they co-directed a music video for Joy Division's Day of the Lords as part of the Unknown Pleasures Reimagined project. In 2020 his and Ward's film Tension Structures received its North American premier at Hot Docs, Toronto. In 2021 Duncan's short film Lost Colony was selected in competition for Docs Ireland.

From 1995 Duncan studied and worked as a structural engineer for over a decade in the UK and Ireland. He received his chartership from the IEI (Irish Engineering Institute) in 2007, before returning to study fine art at IADT, Dún Laoghaire in 2008. He received a 1st class MA (Art in the Contemporary World, NCAD, Dublin) in 2011.

He has guest tutored and guest lectured at UCD School of Architecture, Dublin; UCC School of Architecture, Cork; NCAD, Dublin; and Crawford College of Art, Cork.

He is coeditor of Paper Visual Art Journal (IRL/DE).

Emma Mc Keagney is an artist and researcher who has just completed an MA in Irish Studies at NUI Galway, Ireland. Mc Keagney’s current fixations are the agency of non-human actants, the archaeology of design and political ecologies. She finished a BA in Art in IADT, Dun Laoghaire in 2017 where she also carried out a semester in Helskini, Finland. Upon graduating she won Talbot Studios’ Most Promising Graduate Award with her project Glacial Till on the agency of clay. She also won an Academic Excellence Award from IADT on her dissertation about artist run spaces in Dublin city. In 2018 she exhibited her first solo show, Unstable Categories, in Pallas Projects and Studios in Dublin where she explored the blurred categories of human, non-human and design. She has recently been awarded an Agility Award by the Arts Council of Ireland to turn her recent MA Dissertation on Irish Bungalows into a photography and oral history project. To learn more about her practice and work go to www.emmamckeagney.com

Laurence Lord is an architect with AP+E and lecturer with Queen’s University Belfast. AP+E is a design and research studio based in Ireland and The Netherlands. It operates in the space between design, strategy and architecture to apply fresh perspectives and draw parallels between the wide range of issues concerning the contemporary built environment. The practice is driven by a strong interest in the social and cultural value of architecture. Laurence was part of the Free Market team, as Co-Commissioner/Curator for the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2018.

He is recipient RIAI Future Award winner 2021.

Guided Tour led by Brendan ‘Speedy’ Smith, founder Galway National Park City

Saturday 16 October 2020, 11:30am -13:00pm

Meeting point; Steamers Quay, Woodquay Galway H91 FH61

The Green & The Blue ; Journey through a hidden picturesque rural landscape of Galway City.

The event is a leisurely two hour heritage walk along a picturesque route of lakes, river, meadows, botharíns, castles and woods on the north and eastern side of Galway city and into Galway county.  This route could become a vibrant health and ecological resource for present/future generations and form part of a green infrastructure for the development of Galway as a National Park City. 

Participants should bring wear suitable clothing (including light rain gear).

6000 Years of Irish Art and Architecture

A Road Trip with a Difference in the company of artist Joe Boske & archaeologist Michael Gibbons

Friday 15 October 2021, 09:30 - 17:00

Itinerary ; From Prehistoric to Early Modern Art in the Mountains of Connemara & South Mayo.  Visiting Ashleigh, Tullycross, Murrisk, Boheh and Killadoon.  In the company of Joe Boske & Michael Gibbons.

Meeting Point: Clifden Library (Market St)

Meeting Time: 9.15am / Departure 9:30am

Pick up: Letterfrack, RC Church 9.45am

Return Time: 5-5.30pm.

Cost pp: €10, Book via Eventbrite link below.

Cost subsidised by Architecure at the Edge sponsors

Lunch stop: Murrish (30mins)

Boots & outdoor gear needed for rain and sun!!

Bring back pack with water etc

Numbers limited  

Updates will be issued to confirmed bookings.

AATE21, Exploring Architectural Education.  

Thursday 14 October 2021, 18:30 -19:30 ( via Zoom) 

 Live Discussion on the short and long term trends in architecture education based on variety different contexts and perspectives with;

Prof Nasrine Seraji Full Professor of Architectural design at University College Dublin

Dr. Mark Morris, Head of Teaching and Learning, The Architectural Association (AA), London, , has published extensively and holds posts with RIBA and the V&A in addition to his AA post. 

Moderator; Andrew Clancy, Professor of Architecture at Kingston University

Prof Nasrine Seraji AA Dipl FRIBA, is an Iranian-born French-British architect. She is a 2011 recipient of the Knight of the Legion of Honour, an Officier of l'Ordre national du Mérite and l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.After studying at the Architectural Association and practising in London, Seraji moved to Paris in 1989 to establish her studio[1] where architecture is treated as both a cultural debate and a practice. Since then, she has pursued a path constantly enriched by her simultaneous engagement in architectural practice, teaching, and research. She has lectured and exhibited her work widely in Europe, North America, China, and South East Asia. She is Full Professor of Architectural design in UCD.

 Dr Mark Morris is Head of Teaching and Learning, and Chair of the Senior Management Team at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. He completed his PhD at the London Consortium supported by the RIBA Research Trust. His research focuses on questions of visual representation in the context of the history of architectural education. Mark is the author of two books, Models: Architecture and the Miniature and Automatic Architecture. He is a member of the V&A Museum’s Architectural Models Network and the RIBA Academic Publications Panel.

Prof Andrew Clancy is Professor of Architecture in the Kingston School of art, and director of the Register research group. He completed his PhD in 2017 with RMIT Barcelona. Prior to his role in Kingston he was visiting Professor to the Aarhus School of architecture and M.Arch programme lead in Queens University Belfast. He has co-authored a book on the Danish architect Kay Fisker, shortly for release by Lund Humphries and is a director of Clancy Moore Architects, Dublin.

Follow @ArchAtTheEdge for updates.

Action for Alternative Futures: Post COP26

Wednesday 13 October 2021, 18:30 -19:30 (Via Zoom) 

Discussion that will explore how we might employ more creative / enabling policies in relation to our response to the Climate/ Environment Crisis in context upcoming UN Climate Change Conference (COP26). 

Robert Bourke, Director at Robert Bourke Architects, founder Act Now Collective

Léan Doody, Associate Director and Cities & Planning Leader for Europe at Arup

Kevin Loftus, Architect / Urbanist /Co-founder at ACT / Ballina Irelands Greenest Town

Scott McAulay, RIBAJ Rising Star 2020, Coordinator, Anthropocene Architecture School

Moderator: Orla Murphy, UCD School of Architecture Planning and Environmental Policy and co-director (with Philip Crowe) of UCD Centre for Irish Towns (CfIT). She is owner of Custom Architecture and is a member of the High Level Round Table of the New European Bauhaus.

Scott McAulay (he/him) is a climate justice activist, architectural designer, and climate literacy educator. Since founding the Anthropocene Architecture School in early 2019 in response to architecture’s lasting inertia on climate action, his work has created opportunities and spaces to respond to the climate emergency through architectural and built environment means for thousands of people internationally - fusing activism, climate literacies, provocation and regenerative design principles. He is a coordinator of the Architects Climate Action Network’s Carbon Literacy Working Group, co-director of Anthropocene Projects C.I.C, a Part 2 architectural assistant at Architype, and sits on the RIAS Sustainability Working Group.

Léan Doody is the Integrated Cities and Planning Leader for Europe at Arup. She has over 20 years of professional experience in the industry which includes advising a variety of clients from city and national governments to private developers, and on a variety of projects involving extensive strategy and policy work on the application of smart technologies and the future of work. Recent project work includes strategy and policy work for Danish and Singaporean governments, the Greater London Authority, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, Dublin City Council, Sydney, Canberra and major masterplanning projects in Denmark, the UK, Singapore and Dubai. She recently led the development of a strategic report for IPUT, Ireland’s leading property company, on the future of work and placemaking post C-19.

Léan speaks often on the future of cities, and has been quoted in international media including the New York Times, Vogue Business, the Financial Times, BBC, the Economist, Domus. 

She is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (UCL STEaPP) and an external examiner at the Royal College of Art in London.

Before joining Arup in 2003, Léan completed a Masters degree in urban policy and design at the London School of Economics. Her primary degree is in Mathematics from Trinity College Dublin.

Outside of Arup, Léan is a Director to the Board of the Sustainable Energy Agency of Ireland (SEAI), a national government agency for promoting sustainable energy practices and policies in Ireland.

Robert Bourke is the director of award-winning, Dublin-based architecture studio, Robert Bourke Architects and is a Design Fellow and the School of Architecture, University College Dublin. He also devotes much of his time to climate-related initiatives through his involvement with Irish Architects Declare and Dublin Friends of the Earth. Increasingly frustrated with the lack of urgency surrounding the climate and biodiversity crisis, he co-founded the Act Now Collective in May 2021, with six volunteers with backgrounds in architecture, graphic design, climate policy, media and healthcare. The Act Now Collective have created an online guide to low carbon living under nine simple categories. A Spanish version of the site will be brought online soon. Last week they helped launch a new climate news podcast called the Climate Alarm Clock, which aims to provide a template for delivering honest and relevant climate news. The Collective’s aim is to harness their individual skillsets, networks and interests and find creative ways to maximise their impact on the climate and biodiversity crisis. 

Kevin Loftus is an architect, urbanist and co-founder at ACT, a built environment firm that is setting out to champion best practice in design and the green transition. A native of Ballina and recently returned, Kevin has spent the last decade abroad. He has worked in China at Buro Ole Scheeren and in the Netherlands at MVRDV. He has contributed to design at various scales from skyscrapers and city plans to homes and urban interventions. Recent projects include ‘The Timber Headquarters’, a proposal for the world’s largest timber building, ‘Chengdu Sky Valley’, a proposal for a car-free city in China and ‘The Waldratsamt’, a proposal for a new district administration office in Karlsruhe that re-imagined the relationship between nature and the city. The ‘Ireland’s Greenest Town’ vision for Ballina encompasses many of the principals he feels are critical in the move towards a greener future. In addition to his main work, Kevin is a guest architecture critic at The University of Central Lancashire. He has organized and co-led volunteer design and build projects in both Borneo and Palestine. With a strong  passion for all things green and social, Kevin pushes the core ideas of sustainable development in his work.

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Launch, Vision 2050

Hardiman Hotel, Galway

Monday 11 October 2021, 15:30 -17:00

AATE in Partnership Galway City Chamber of Commerce

The AATE Festival 2021 takes place within the context of Galway City Council’s Development Plan (2023-2029), draft-stage which is currently under review by Councillors, having undertaking initial public consultation/engagement processes. In parallel to this AATE have partnered with Galway Chamber to launch the next phase of the consultation process for ‘Vision 2050’ which takes place at the Hardiman Hotel on Monday 11th October. (Strictly by invitation only)

A large panoramic visualisation has been created envisioning ‘Galway 2050’ by architect Brett Mahon for the purposes of inviting and stimulating public discussion. Workshops for engaging meaningfully with this and the Draft Galway City Development Plan 2023 -2029 will take place at Galway Chamber office on weekend 16th October. The exhibition of ‘Galway 2050’ will be open for public viewing in the Galway Chamber offices for 6 weeks following the launch. 

Invitation to explore the resting place of Robert ffrench of Monivea, where conservation works have been undertaken recently. Designed by Francis Persse 1897 -1901.

Time  Sunday  10th October  from 2 to 5 pm

Open Day hosted by Monivea Heritage Association .

Westport House Restoration Tour

9th October 2021 10am

10th October 2021 10am

Limited Capacity

Westport House was commissioned by John Browne, first Earl of Altamont, to a design (1731) by Richard Castle on the site of the earlier O’Malley tower house in the picturesque landscape of Clew Bay. Other distinguished architects involved in the later improvements to the house included James Wyatt & Benjamin Dean Wyatt. Westport House is currently undergoing restoration works to protect the external and internal built fabric under the guidance of Consarc Conservation, a specialist RIAI Grade 1 Accredited practice.

 Westport House will provide guided tours of the exterior of the house followed by a tour of the piano nobile level to see interior works. Visitors will be met at the Construction Site Gate at the House Bridge at the tour start time and will be escorted back to the bridge gate to exit.

High-vis. vests and hard hats will be supplied for use during the tour. Please wear closed-toe shoes. Tour duration - 60minutes.

The Estate grounds are open 8am to 9pm for free to walkers and you are asked to show your love of Westport House and #LeaveNoTrace

Westport House Restoration Tour

9th October 2021 10am

10th October 2021 10am

Limited Capacity

Westport House was commissioned by John Browne, first Earl of Altamont, to a design (1731) by Richard Castle on the site of the earlier O’Malley tower house in the picturesque landscape of Clew Bay. Other distinguished architects involved in the later improvements to the house included James Wyatt & Benjamin Dean Wyatt. Westport House is currently undergoing restoration works to protect the external and internal built fabric under the guidance of Consarc Conservation, a specialist RIAI Grade 1 Accredited practice.

 Westport House will provide guided tours of the exterior of the house followed by a tour of the piano nobile level to see interior works. Visitors will be met at the Construction Site Gate at the House Bridge at the tour start time and will be escorted back to the bridge gate to exit.

High-vis. vests and hard hats will be supplied for use during the tour. Please wear closed-toe shoes. Tour duration - 60minutes.

The Estate grounds are open 8am to 9pm for free to walkers and you are asked to show your love of Westport House and #LeaveNoTrace

In Search of Clarity: Gwathmey Siegel & Carlo Scarpa

Films introduced and followed by a discussion with the director Murray Grigor.

In Search of Clarity: Gwathmey Siegel

Director: Murray Grigor, 45 Minutes

Charles Gwathmey has been guided by the spirit of modernism in his architecture from the day he successfully built his parents’ home in 1967 based on the theories of Le Corbusier. Avoiding the nostalgia of fashionable postmodernism, Gwathmey and Robert Siegel continue to create innovative buildings across America. We hear from contemporary architects and from filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who describes how a journey through a Gwathmey / Siegel house creates the same sense of drama as a well-made movie.

Carlo Scarpa

Director: Murray Grigor, 57 Minutes

The influential Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) was radical in his approach to the renovation of historical buildings. His vision was simple: the ancient should be combined with the modern, rare and precious materials with the most common, uniting the rough with the smooth, celebrating the difference between function and luxury. This imaginative documentary delights in the architect's spaces, capturing his mastery of light and the inspirations of the city of his birth.

Films introduced and followed by a discussion with the director Murray Grigor.