Clancy Moore Architects
Andrew Clancy and Colm Moore established Clancy Moore Architects in 2006. Both partners teach at Dublin Institute of Technology and are visiting critics to Queen’s University, Belfast and Dundee School of Architecture.
The primary aim of the series is to promote critical thinking and discussion between related disciplines at research, professional and post-graduate level. The seminar series was designed to provide a forum for the advancement and acknowledgement of the very valuable research currently being undertaken at this level. Each session provides an opportunity for airing of new ideas and approaches, wherein the value of diversity, particularly as it occurs in thematic approaches, perspectives, interpretations and methods, is recognised. The provision of such a forum has already begun to establish a sense of character, presence and communal scholarship within the postgraduate and research network in architecture and related disciplines.
Each year the seminars are broadly addressed under an overarching theme. The theme of the 2009 calendar year was “Fieldwork”, whilst that of the 2010 seminar series is the same as the title of our research community, “Research As Is?”1 . As a theme, it is to be considered in its widest possible sense.
It can epitomise the state-of-play of personal research, encapsulate, interrogate or broaden accepted disciplinary boundaries, address ideas of interaction, introduce processes and methods or describe aims and aspirations within a field or across fields. Essentially, the aim is to promote research and ideas by providing an informal forum for presentation and discussion, and by creating a strong “research community” with a range of diverse interests and background. Generally, the majority of presentations are largely concerned with works in progress, rather than completed bodies of work, although this is not a stipulation for participation.
The website related to the seminars is a platform for further discussion on the subjects presented and will have latest news on conferences, symposiums and calls for papers that might be relevant for the participants’ research.
All interested participants welcome. For further information see the researchasis website - www.researchasis.webs.com - or contact one of the organisers:
Fiona Smyth: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Elizabeth McNicholas: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address);
Agustina Martire: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Mariana Francis: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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We are happy to announce that Building Material 19, Art & Architecture was commended in the recent IDI (Institute of Designers in Ireland) awards. Congratulations to Ronan Devlin at LittleSeal.
See: http://www.idi-design.ie/designawards/2009winners.html for a full list of winners.
See: http://www.littleseal.com/ for information on our new graphic designers.
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Please find below some images from the launch of Building Material 19, Art & Architecture at Dublin City Council’s The LAB in October 2009. The Architectural Association was pleased to have Ali Grehan, City Architect, launch the journal.
Preceding this, there were presentations by artists Dennis McNulty and Grace Weir, followed by a panel discussion and presentations by Blaise Drummond (artist), Georgina Jackson (curator), Orla Murphy (architect) and Ruiarí Ó’Cuív (DCC Public Art Officer). The panel discussion was moderated by Brian Ward (architect and lecturer).
We are pleased to announce that Building Material 19, Art & Architecture is now also available from:
The Winding Stair Bookshop 40 Ormonde Quay, Dublin 1
http://www.winding-stair.com/
The RIAI Bookshop 8 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
http://www.riai.ie/about_the_riai/riai_bookshop/
The National Gallery of Ireland Bookshop National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square West, Dublin 2
http://www.nationalgallery.ie/
PLACE, The Architecture and Built Environment Centre for Northern Ireland 40 Fountain Street, Belfast BT1 5EE
http://www.place.uk.net/
Noble and Beggarman Books, 28 South William Street, Dublin 2
http://www.nobleandbeggarmanbooks.com/
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Copies of Building Material 19, Art & Architecture are available from the Architecture Association of Ireland. Please contact Stephen Mulhall, Editor at: buildingmaterialeditor@gmail.com
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Culture Ireland, in partnership with the Arts Council, is pleased to announce the appointment of the curators who will represent Ireland at the Architecture Biennale in Venice. The curators will work closely with the Irish Architecture Foundation, Commissioners for the 2010 Architecture Biennale, which will open in August 2010. Ireland at Venice is an initiative of Culture Ireland in partnership with the Arts Council.
The curating team, selected following an open competitive process, is a collaboration between Tom dePaor, Peter Maybury, Alice Casey and Cian Deegan, who will deliver an exhibition about renowned Irish practice, deBlacam and Meagher. This exhibition will seek to develop an understanding of the cultural landscape of Ireland through the work of deBlacam and Meagher Architects. Over 33 years this Irish architectural practice has built houses and places of work, commerce, education and worship. In turn, the influence of deBlacam and Meagher’s practice has permeated the many facets of Irish life with a distinct cultural presence. Through a number of individual contributions by Irish and international critical voices, the contemporary relevance of this body of work will be explored and revealed.