The Reason of Towns
06 Jun—22 June (17 dates)
Core Programme Greater Glasgow & Clyde Event Exhibition
Event Summary
An exhibition with architect Valerie Mulvin for the telling and retelling of true stories, lost traditions and possible futures for Irish towns and the people who live in them.
Time
11:00 - 17:00
Date(s)
06 Jun—22 June
Location
The Briggait, 72 Clyde Street, Glasgow G1 5HZ
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Organiser
Irish Architecture Foundation
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The Reason of Towns is an engaging and ambitious exhibition by the Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) of the work of one of Ireland’s most renowned architects, Valerie Mulvin of McCullough Mulvin Architects. Curated, commissioned and produced by the IAF, and designed by AP+E, this exhibition which has already toured to six counties and venues in Ireland, features models, drawings, texts, and a series of slides, notes, personal memorabilia, building fragments and more.
The Reason of Towns exhibition additionally presents three specially commissioned films. The Space Is the Thing is a spatial-portrait of Clones, Youghal, Dungarvan and Templemore, describing their ‘ordinary-spectacular’ town forms. Of Pride and Place documents ten optimistic stories of action and change by architects working in towns across Ireland. Finally, the third film is an interview with Valerie Mulvin by broadcaster Vincent Woods, reflecting on her work and the subject of the exhibition.
The Reason of Towns reveals the reciprocity between people and the places they build, and how thereafter places build them in return. Addressing issues of climate, heritage, housing, vacancy and the transformative potential of professional and community practice, the exhibition reminds that all such things are connected and are best considered together. Presented for the first time outside of Ireland at the Architecture Fringe in Glasgow, The Reason of Towns offers an opportunity for learning and knowledge exchange. It will be a locus of discussion about shared or distinct urban traditions, anticipating new potentials of reciprocal exchange through architecture between Scotland and Ireland.
The Core Programme for the Architecture Fringe 2025 has been made possible through the support of Creative Scotland Multi-Year Funding, Moxon Architects, Helen Lucas Architects, and Collective Architecture.
