2021 AAI Awards Presentation & Exhibition Opening
Launch of Irish Architecture 2017 2018 2019
Launch of Building Material 23
Thursday March 24 2022, 19:00
City Assembly House
58 South William Street, Dublin D02 X751
(Refreshments will be provided)
2021 AAI Awards Presentation & Exhibition Opening
Please join us for the belated presentation and entry submission exhibition of the 2021 AAI Awards. Over 80 entries were received and the AAI is delighted to finally be able to make these submissions available for public viewing, offering a rare insight into the outcome of the adjudication process. The variety of projects submitted, in terms of scale, typology and location, provides a unique and impressive overview of contemporary Irish architectural practice. The exhibition will be open to the public from 10am to 5pm until Saturday 26th.
Launch of Irish Architecture 2017 2018 2019
The AAI is also delighted to finally be launching the publications for the 2017 2018 2019 AAI Awards and Building Material 23, continuing the legacy of being the only internationally peer-reviewed Irish architecture awards that publicly publish the critical discourse which takes place among the adjudicating assessors. This gives the public an unprecedented insight into the critical conversations that shape the quality of our built environment and future heritage. Historically these awards have been the first to recognise the emerging talents that have gone on to become the established names of an increasingly sophisticated and internationally recognised culture of architecture in Ireland.
Details of the 2021, 2017 2018 and 2019 awards can be found on our website https://architecturalassociation.ie/awards/
Launch of Building Material 23
Building Material is an annual architecture journal, joint published by the Architectural Association of Ireland (AAI), the All-Ireland Architecture Research Group (AIARG), and the Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF). Building Material 23 explores the range of architectural possibilities inherent within the word ‘fields’ in Ireland and elsewhere. The notion of fields is used in architecture to connote ambiguity. Whether used spatially or figuratively, it introduces into the discourse a tension in the acknowledgement of boundary. It is like a fabric, a carpet, a pattern with the potential for endlessness (or at least an ill-defined edge), yet the terminology of the field equally embodies concepts of containment and segregation. It slips between roles as an all encompassing terrain while remaining one part perhaps of a greater whole. Within the discourse of architecture, fields can capture a range of concerns, including: the imagery and nature of non-hierarchical space; the extents of professional and disciplinary knowledge; and the possibilities of boundaries, not as rigid delineating barriers, but instead as rich transitional zones. In all this, there may be many fields of shifting centres.
Copies of all books will be available to purchase, or collect, at the event.
