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LECTURES + EVENTS 99 spring

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16.4.99 alvaro siza
17.4.99 de blacam meagher
19.4.99 luigi snozzi
24.4.99 mccullough mulvin
06.5.99 cathal o'neill
08.5.99 grafton architects
10.5.99 marc mimram
13.5.99 henri ciriani
14.5.99 claudio silvestrin
20.5.99 buchholz mcevoy
22.5.99 buchholz mcevoy
22.5.99 mcgarry nieanaigh
27.5.99 agm
25.6.99 tennis tournament

EXHIBITION OPENING

ALVARO SIZA
date: friday 16th april 1999
time: 6.00 pm
venue: bridge gallery, ormond quay, dublin 1

BUILDING VISIT

DE BLACAM & MEAGHER
date: saturday 17th april 1999
time: 12.00 noon
venue: 1 castle street dublin 2
Located at the corner of Castle Street and Werburgh Street - between Dublin Castle and Chrictchurch Cathedral - an existing building has been extended to the built line of castle st and two additional floors added to address this prominent corner site. While the existing building is still visible from the Werburgh St side, a new brick skin is wrapped around from the Castle St side. A dark brick with a 'monk' bond is used, complementing the black flamed granite cladding of the ground floor. This visually reduces the additional height and allows the elevation to read as one piece. The untreated iroko windows soften the elevation, the most visible being the two storey high corner window. The penthouse apartment is designed around the client's specific requirements and the myriad views avaialable from this location and height.

LECTURE

LUIGI SNOZZI
date: monday 19th april 1999
time: 7.30 pm
venue: dit bolton street LT259
Luigi Snozzi lecture son his work in the village of Monte Carasso, in the Ticino area of Switzerland. Snozzi prepared a development plan for the village in 1979, since then he has built a large number of projects in the village including a gymnasium, a bank, a cemetary, housing, a number of private houses, and most notably the refurbishment and extension to the renaissance monastery that lies in the centre of the village. Dealing with familiar issues like rural exodus and the loss of cultural identity of a village through uncontrolled urbanisation, this lecture will have lots for us to pay attention to in Ireland.

BUILDING VISIT

MCCULOUGH MULVIN
date: saturday 24th april 1999
time: 11.00 noon
venue: mews house, louis lane, rathmines, dublin 6
1999 AAI award winning mews house at Louis Lane provides 2000m2 of accomodation in two stories on a narrow site besidea another modern house. The plan is given by the site, the living space is a single room at first floor level with bedrooms and carport below. Overlooking is prevented by etched glass within the main glazing units.

LECTURE

CATHAL O'NEILL
date: thursday 6 may 1999
time: 8.00 pm
venue: riai 8 merrion square, dublin 2
Cathal O'Neill lectures on his four years in practice since his retirement from UCD as professor of the school of architecture. He discusses this work with reference to hsi projects of the sixties when he had just returned to Ireland after working in the office of Mies van der Rohe. His recent projects include and interior to a lift, a football club in Dublin, a tennis club in the Bahamas and a timber office building.

EXHIBITION WALKABOUT

GRAFTON ARCHITECTS
date: saturday 8 may 1999
time: 11.00 noon
venue: riai 8 merrion square, dublin 2

LECTURE

MARC MIMRAM
date: monday 10 may 1999
time: 8.00 pm
venue: dit bolton street LT259
Marc Mimram, the architect for the new Solferino footbridge currently been built over the Seine in Paris - "I don't feel that modernity need to be the opposite of the past, I would't say it's a revolution but an evolution." Mimram is professor of architectural construction at école d'architecture, paris tolbiac et paris la défense, he became an architect after studying mathematics and civil engineering. His recently built work includes a motorway tollgate, and a sports stadium.

LECTURE

HENRI CIRIANI
date: thursday 13 may 1999
time: 8.00 pm
venue: dit bolton street LT259
Concrete Society lecture
"Henri Ciriani continues to be one of the most influential forces in current French architecture. he has extended the inheritance of modernism - and in particular that of Le Corbusier - to ally contemporary building programmes with aspects of contemporay theory." Raymund Ryan - AR Magazine

BUILDING VISIT

CLAUDIO SILVESTRIN
date: Friday 14 1999
time: 12.00 noon
venue: donnelly gallery, vico road, killiney

LECTURE

BUCHHOLZ MCEVOY
date: thursday 20 may 1999
time: 8.00 pm
venue: RIAI 8 merrion square, dublin 2

BUILDING VISIT

BUCHHOLZ MCEVOY
date: saturday 22 may 1999
time: 11.00 am
venue: fingal county council offices, swords, co dublin

BUILDING VISIT

MCGARRY NIEANAIGH
date: saturday 22 may 1999
time: 2.00 pm
venue: school and gymnasium, swords, co dublin
This building, an assembly of monopitched elements: the overlap between roof planes allows light to enter the depth of the plan. The classroom elevation incorporates a precast concrete sunshade on both levels which acts as a unifying element over the length of the elevation.

MEETING

AAI AGM
thursday 27 may
time: 6.00 pm
venue: RIAI 8 merrion square, dublin 2

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