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Lecture@SAUL: Martin Self 'DESIGN & MAKE' 18h00 Tomorrow Wednesday 11th April

2012-04-10T06:40:00.004-07:00

Martin Self is an engineer and designer who has taught design and theory at the Architectural Association since 2004. He is currently Programme Director of the ‘Design & Make’ Masters Programme at the AA Hooke Park.

He was a founder member of Arup’s Advanced Geometry Group, studied architectural theory at the AA, and has provided structural engineering and form-finding consultancy within practices such as Zaha Hadid Architects and Antony Gormley Studio. He was design team member and resident engineer for the award-winning self-sufficient Druk White Lotus School in Himalayan Ladakh. Trained originally in aerospace engineering, he worked at Ove Arup & Partners in a series of specialist and design roles over a ten-year period.

With Charles Walker, he has led the design and production of the four AA Summer Pavilions (2006-2009) through tutorship of AA Intermediate Unit 2. Projects at AGU include collaborations with architects including OMA, UNStudio, Shigeru Ban and David Adjaye, and artists Anish Kapoor and Chris Ofili. He was responsible for the 2005 Serpentine Pavilion by Alvaro Siza & Eduardo Souto De Moura with Cecil Balmond, and the roof, at competition stage, of Pompidou Metz by Shigeru Ban.

Invitation to Art Performance LSAD - Sculpture & Combined Media

2012-03-20T09:01:00.001-07:00

A Bridge

An evening of Performance Art by students of the Sculpture and Combined Media Department of Limerick School of Art and Design.

The entertainment will include daring contortions of the body. You can expect to experience bold and engaging verbal confrontations. Come and be yelled at! The action will incorporate, the building, the grounds and the fountain of Shannon Rowing Club, as well as the River Shannon. The performers will provide you with a wide variety of works which will not fail to entertain you. Be shocked! Be amused! Be intrigued! Soak up the Drama! Definitely an evening not to be missed!

Your Master of Ceremonies for the evening will be none other than Oscar McLennan.

The venue is Shannon Rowing Club on Sarsfield Bridge in the heart of Limerick City.

Doors open at 7.30 pm, the performances begin at 8.00 pm on Wednesday, 21^st March 2012.

Lecture@SAUL 18h00 Wednesday March 21: Rafael Benéytez Durán, Professor of Design, Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid

2012-03-20T02:24:00.003-07:00

Rafael Benéytez Durán is Professor of Design at Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid. He has been an invited guest critic to the University of Wurzburg, Santander, Valencia, Barcelona and Harvard GSD.

He established Z4Z4 & AA Madrid in 2001. Prior to this he spent eight years working as Project Director at the architecture studio of Rafael Moneo where he was responsible for The Jose Beulas Art Foundation in Huesca and the Children’s Maternity Hospital in Madrid.

His own studio work at has been premiated in competitions and juries both in Spain and abroad. In 2005 his studio won the competition for the Congress and Exhibition Palace in Huesca and in 2008 won The Pavilion for Castilla y Leon at The World Expo at Zaragoza Spain. His work has also been published in international journals and exhibitions.

Lecture@SAUL

18h00 Wednesday March 21^st

SAUL Studio Room CG-042, Main Building UL

Ailtireacht as Gaeilge - SAUL Studio 15 March Thursday 13.00 to 14.30

2012-03-13T05:45:00.000-07:00

Fáilte roimh gach éinne go dtí Studio SAUL – díreach taobh thiar de Phríomhfháiltiú na hOllscoile – aon am idir 13.00 agus 14.30, 15ú Márta. Tá seachtar mac léinn ó gach bliain chun a gcuid tograí ailtireachta a thaispeáint agus a phlé as Gaeilge, i gcuideachta an t-ailtire Cáit Ní Cheallacháin. Tá na tograí suite in áiteanna éagsúla, idir Chathair agus Chontae Luimní, an Bhoireann agus Cill Chaoi i gCo. An Chláir, cósta Chonnamara, agus Fez sa Mharacó. Tóg do lón, más mian leat.

All are welcome to ‘Ailtireacht as Gaeilge’ – in the SAUL studio (directly behind UL main reception desk CG-042) on Thursday 15^th March. You are welcome to call in at a time that suits you between 13.00 – 14.30. Seven students from across 1^st to 5^th year at SAUL will present and discuss their architectural projects in Irish – with Cáit Ní Cheallacháin as visiting discussant. The projects are situated in various places, including Limerick City and County, the Burren and Kilkee, Connemara and Fez, Morocco. You are welcome to bring your lunch.

Lecture@SAUL 18h00 Wednesday March 14 'Beyond Form: Materiality in Architecture'

2012-03-13T05:43:00.003-07:00

Rubens Cortés Cano was born in Tenerife 1974. In 1998 he won a scholarship to study at the Oxford Brookes University (UK). He graduated as architect at the Granada School of Architecture in 2000. He founded the office M57architects in 2002.

His work has followed a research line concerning urban transformation and architectural operations on heritage buildings. He has been a visiting lecturer at several spanish and foreign schools of architecture including the Università Internazionalle dell’Arte, Venize; Alicante School of Architecture; Collegi d'Aparelladors, Arquitectes Tècnics i Enginyers d'Edificació de Barcelona; Andalusian Associations of Architects and Granada School of Architecture.

In 2002 Rubens Cortés Cano received Honorable Mention by the COA of Granada for “Bronze. Loalba Jewelry Shop” (Co-authors: Javier Castellano and José Luis López). The same year he got the 1st accesit of the J5 competition with social housing development projects in Berja (Almeria). In 2004 Guadix (Granada). In 2005 he received International Architecture Award FAD 2005 for his project “Manantial: Sound Box” in the category of temporary spaces (Co-authors: Javier Castellano and Joaquin Casanova). In 2008, his proposal for the Public Library María Lejárraga in Ogíjares (Granada) won the 1st prize of the ideas competition. In 2010, the project executed in Jaen “Raudal. Magdalena´s Fountain” was selected in the 6th European Biennial of Landscape Architecture, Rosa Barba European Landscape Prize and resulted FAD Awards Finalist 2010 in the category of public spaces (Co-authors: Javier Castellano and Noelia Martinez).

His Work has been displayed at exhibitions in Spain and abroad including the 11th Biennale di Architettura di Venize.
He has been published in numerous specialized architectural magazines and reviews as On Design, Negozzi, Arquitectura Viva, Proyecto Contract and Via Arquitectura.

Thinking Space - Beyond Eye Level Saturday March 24 Dublin

2012-03-10T06:59:00.000-08:00

Lecture@SAUL TODAY @ 6pm: Henry Bardsley, Structural Engineer

2012-03-06T03:31:00.001-08:00

Lecture@SAUL Wednesday March 7th: Andrew Griffin, Julien De Smedt Architects

2012-03-04T15:07:00.002-08:00

Irish Planning Institute Mid-West Branch - Talk 7:30pm March 7th, Savoy Hotel Limerick

2012-02-27T08:00:00.000-08:00

The Mid-West Branch of the Irish Planning Institute is hosting the following event:

Evening Talk by Dr. Brian Callanan - "Reflections on 40 years of planning" – see attached flyer

Wednesday 7th March, 7.30pm - Savoy Hotel, Limerick

EVERYONE WELCOME

While the event is free to all, pre-booking is essential

Please contact

Brian McCarthy

Secretary Mid-West Branch IPI

Tel: 065-6846556

Email: bmccarthy@clarecoco.ie

Event Preceded by

IPI MID-WEST BRANCH AGM at 6.15pm, Wednesday 7th March, Savoy Hotel, Limerick

AGM is open to members of the IPI only.

Notice of nominations and motions should be forwarded to Brian McCarthy, Secretary Mid-West IPI by March 2nd

Elizabeth Hatz - INVITATION - PIVOT "Re Think + Re Act"

2012-02-27T07:57:00.003-08:00

International Student Design Competition

2012-02-27T07:56:00.003-08:00

The International Council for Caring Communities 2012 is a very important international student based competition which has a registration date of 1 June and a submission date of 8 August 2012 (electronic). If an individual student or a team of students (please see details regarding eligibility on site at www.international-iccc.org) wish to participate it is important to register in time online.

Lecture@SAUL by Lytle Shaw, New York University 18h00 Wednesday February 29 Room CG-042

2012-02-27T07:52:00.002-08:00

Date: Wednesday February 29

Time: 18h00

Venue: Room CG-042 – Architecture Studio

Elephant Talks @ Ormston House Limerick

2012-02-20T13:06:00.001-08:00

The first talk will take place this Thursday February 23rd at 7:30pm in Ormstom House Limerick

Lecture@SAUL 18h00 Wednesday February 22: 'Architecture As the New Geography'

2012-02-20T13:04:00.001-08:00

'In House' Exhibition - February 17 - Architecture Republic

2012-02-14T09:03:00.000-08:00

IN HOUSE

You are invited to Abbey Road Artist's Studios in Athlone for an exhibition of domestic building projects by Architecture Republic from
17 February to 02 March, Mon-Sat 1pm-4pm.
The exhibition consists of drawings, conceptual images and scale models that explore a variety of refurbishments, extensions, conversions and new-build housing on urban-infill sites. There will be a wine reception and introduction by Maxim Laroussi on Friday 17th @ 5.30pm

location
Architecture Republic website

Lecture@SAUL: 'CONTOURS' Conal Ryan Architect/Musician 18h00 Wednesday February 15 SAUL Studio

2012-02-13T02:27:00.001-08:00

Lecture@SAUL: 'Architecture Travel Experience II'

2012-02-06T03:54:00.001-08:00

The lecture will feature year-out travel experiences by seven of our current Y4/Y5 SAUL architecture students

who went to live in London, Germany, India, Siberia, Australia and New Zealand.

Time/Date: 18h00 Wednesday February 8

Venue: Main Architecture Studio – Room CG 042 (located behind reception in the main building)

NOTE: the lecture by Conal Ryan Architect/Musician has been rescheduled to Wednesday February 15^th

- this date to be confirmed.

Limerick City Library: Mt St Lawrence Cemetery lecture

2012-02-02T01:24:00.000-08:00

Limerick City Library

“City of the Dead:

Mount Saint Lawrence Cemetery since 1855”

An illustrated lecture by

Dr. Matthew Potter

Friday, 3^rd February 2012

8.00pm

Refreshments will be served. City Library, The Granary Admission Free

Lecture@SAUL - Wednesday 6pm - Assemble

2012-01-30T08:08:00.001-08:00

Renowned silent film historian, Kevin Brownlow for Limerick on 18th February 2012

2012-01-24T03:43:00.000-08:00

With the film world buzzing at the remarkable success at the recent Golden globe awards of the modern silent film, ‘The Artist’, the Friends of the Hunt Museum are delighted with the happy coincidence that their next event, to be held in the Strand Hotel, Limerick on the afternoon of February 18th is also highlighting the world of silent movies , when their guest speaker will be Bafta and Oscar award winner, Kevin Brownlow, whose lifetime’s passion for restoring and presenting silent movies earned him the acclaim of Hollywood.

For his visit to Limerick, the theme of his talk will be ‘Those Surprising Silents’, when he will demonstrate his contention that silent film was an art form in its own right, rather than a primitive step on the way to the maturity of the talkies, and that the people who made them had extraordinary stories to tell. The talk will be illustrated by film extracts of the silent era, ranging from films lasting a minute made in 1900, through action melodramas and slapstick comedies, to the spectacular epics of the late twenties.

This remarkable Englishman of Irish descent is the author of several books on the history of Film and has directed many acclaimed documentaries on the same subject. His film restorations include more than 25 silent films, including classics such as The Thief of Bagdad starring Douglas Fairbanks, Ben-Hur, Buster Keaton’s The General and Our Hospitality. In the course of his research he has met and enjoyed the friendship of the royalty of old Hollywood, including Buster Keaton, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, Louise Brooks, Gloria Swanson, Harold Lloyd and many others. No less a person than Martin Scorsese has said “You might say that Mr Brownlow is film history.”

This not to be missed event will take place at 2pm on the 18th February in the Strand Hotel, Limerick. Tickets at €20 are available from the Hunt Museum Giftshop (061-312833) or the Friends of the Hunt Museum (061-312960). Early booking would be appreciated. There is a student concession of €10 available.

Further information on Kevin Brownlow see www.photoplay.co.uk

Further information on the event from Friends of the Hunt Museum, The Hunt Museum, Rutland Street, Limerick Telephone: 061-312960

Email: friends@huntmuseum.com

CALL FOR PHOTOS OF JOHN LOGAN

2012-01-23T08:15:00.001-08:00

Dear all,

As you may or may not be aware, John Logan is retiring at the end of this month. We would like to compile a collection of photographs of John in SAUL over the past years – and would ask if you could search your collections from time within the studio, on SAUL/SofA trips etc., to see if you have some nice ones of him.

Please email them to Peter.F.Carroll@ul.ie by Thursday 26^th January – this week! (if any are particularly large please reduce to 1.5MB)

Looking forward to your cooperation on this.

Thank you!

John Logan SAUL Lecture

2012-01-23T08:14:00.001-08:00

Dear SAUL Colleagues,

To mark his retirement, please see attached a lecture poster for John Logan. John himself chose ‘Postcards’ as his preferred title. The event will take place on Monday February 1st at 6pm in SAUL Main Studio.

Lecture@SAUL 18h00 Wednesday January 25 'Tom Gray T/E/S/S' Paris based Architecture/Engineering atelier

2012-01-23T04:21:00.000-08:00

This Wednesday’s Lecture@SAUL will be given by Tom Gray of T/E/S/S

T/E/S/S is a Paris-based architecture/engineering atelier of 20 architects and engineers led by Tom Gray, Matt King and Bernard Vaudeville. The atelier work as a design office on project structures, facades and envelopes. Their work applies to works as diverse as residential and commercial buildings, roofs and awnings, atriums, skylights, decks, walkways and sculptures. Their work is based on a thorough knowledge of materials, steel, glass, wood, concrete, textiles and composite, on mastery of complex geometries and on the most effective available tools.

Time: 18h00

Venue: SAUL Studio Room CG-042 (located directly behind reception in the main building)

Image attached:
CENTRE ARCHEOLOGIQUE EUROPEEN, BIBRACTE
Couverture modulable pour fouilles archéologiques, Bourgogne Arch.: Paul Andreu

eva International - open call for proposals

2011-12-12T11:24:00.000-08:00

eva International

Biennial of Visual Art, Limerick City, Ireland
19 May–12 August 2012
Curated by Annie Fletcher

Open call for proposals
Deadline: 31 January 2012

www.eva.ie/open-call

info@eva.ie

"Everywhere we look and everything we read right now seems to tell us we are at a new juncture. We are at an unprecedented moment of change – whether teetering on the edge of a financial precipice, or witnessing extraordinary new articulations of protest. This year eva International will attempt to tap into this feeling of imminence by understanding how artists define and explain the status quo in relation to global events. What are we on the verge of? How do artists envisage what is to come and what is to be done?"
Annie Fletcher, Curator of eva International 2012.

eva International and Annie Fletcher would like to invite artists from all over the world to propose new or existing works for inclusion in eva International 2012. Proposals can be made in any medium and selected artists will be supported to produce new or show existing works in Limerick City, Ireland from 19 May – 12 August 2012.

Proposals should be made through the online submission process. Artists can make up to 2 proposals and there is a submission fee of €20 for 1 proposal or €30 for 2 proposals. Supporting materials can either be uploaded through the online submission process, sent by post to Limerick City Gallery of Art, or delivered by hand to Limerick City Gallery of Art or Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin. Deadline: 31 January 2012.

Please see www.eva.ie/open-call or contact info@eva.ie for further information.

We look forward to receiving your proposals!

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About Annie Fletcher
Annie Fletcher is currently Curator of Exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and tutor at De Appel, Amsterdam. Recent presentations include solo exhibitions or projects with Jo Baer, Jutta Koether, Cerith Wynn Evans, Deimantas Narkevicius, Minerva Cuevas and the long term project, "Be(com)ing Dutch" with Charles Esche (2006–2009). She was co-founder and co-director of the rolling platform "If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution" with Frederique Bergholtz (2005–2010), and Co-Curator of Cork Caucus with Charles Esche and Art / not art (2005). As a writer she has recently contributed to various magazines including "Afterall" and "Metropolis M", and is currently on the editorial board of "A Prior" magazine.

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About eva International
Founded in 1977, eva International is an artist-centred biennial of visual art that works with acclaimed guest curators to present innovative exhibitions across the city of Limerick, Ireland. Artists' projects are selected through an international open call for proposals and exhibitions take place in both gallery and non-gallery spaces. A programme of talks, workshops and events accompanies the exhibitions and provides further opportunities for audiences to engage.

Since being founded, eva International has gained national and international acclaim, and is recognised as Ireland's preeminent exhibition of visual art. Previous curators: Elizabeth Hatz (2010), Angelika Nollert & Yilmaz Dziewior (2009), Hou Hanru (2008), Klaus Ottmann (2007), Katerina Gregos (2006), Dan Cameron (2005), Zdenka Badovinac (2004), Virginia Pérez Ratton (2003), Apinan Poshyananda (2002), Salah M. Hassan (2001), Rosa Martínez (2000), Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn (1999), Paul M. O'Reilly (1998), Guy Tortosa (1996), María de Corral (1995), Jan Hoet (1994), Gloria Moure (1993), Lars Nittve (1992), Germano Celant (1991), Saskia Bos (1990), Florent Bex and Alexander Roshin (1988), Ida Panicelli (1987), Nabuo Nakamura (1986), Rudi Fuchs (1985), Peter Fuller (1984), Liesbeth Brandt Corstius (1982), Pierre Restany (1981), Brian O'Doherty (1980), Sandy Nairne (1979), Adrian Hall, Charles Harper, Theo Mcnab, Cóilín Murray (1978) Barrie Cooke, John Kelly, Brian King (1977).

eva International is supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, Limerick City Council, Limerick City Gallery of Art and is in partnership in 2012 with the Van Abbemuseum and Visual Artists Ireland.

For further information please see www.eva.ie or contact info@eva.ie.

Please feel free to distribute this email to anyone who you think may be interested in this opportunity. Apologies for any cross-postings. If you would like to unsubscribe from this mailing list, please reply to this email putting "unsubscribe" in the subject field.

Lecture@SAUL 6pm THIS EVENING Wednesday December 7: John Gerrard, Artist 'Recent Work'

2011-12-07T04:19:00.001-08:00

Lecture: 18h00 Wednesday December 7^th

Venue: Architecture Studio University of Limerick, Room CG-042, University Main Building

John Gerrard Biography 2011

Born in Dublin in 1974, John Gerrard received a BFA from The Ruskin School

of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University. He undertook postgraduate
studies at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and Trinity College,
Dublin, and in 2002 was awarded a Pépinières Residency at Ars Electronica,
Linz.

Recent group exhibitions include BEYOND at Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
(2011) 20/20, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland (2011) and Invited EV+A,
Limerick, Ireland, in collaboration with Peter Carroll. (2010). Infinitum at
Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, (2009), Academia at L’Ecole de Beaux-Arts, Paris
(2008), Existencias at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
(2007) and Equal, That Is, To the Real Itself, Marian Goodman Gallery, New
York (2007)

Recent solo presentations of Gerrard's work include Infinite Freedom
Exercise, Manchester International Festival, Manchester, UK (2011) John
Gerrard, Ivory Press, Madrid, Spain (2011) John Gerrard, Perth Institute of
Contemporary Art, Perth, Australia (2011) Universal, Void, Derry, N. Ireland
(2011) John Gerrard, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK (2010) Cuban School,
Simon Preston Gallery, New York (2010) Sow Farm : What You See is Where
You're At / Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
(2010) Oil Stick Work, Art on the Underground, Canary Wharf Station, London,
UK (2009 / 10) Directions : John Gerrard, Hirshhorn Museum + Sculpture
Garden, Washington DC, USA (2009) and John Gerrard, Animated Scene, 53rd
International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy (2009). In 2011
Gerrard was commissioned to produce Live Fire Exercise (in collaboration
with Wayne McGregor) which premiered at The Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House,
London UK in May 2011.

John Gerrard lives and works in Dublin, Ireland and Vienna, Austria. He is
represented by Thomas Dane Gallery, London and Simon Preston Gallery. New
York. For more information see www.johngerrard.net
<http://www.johngerrard.netJohn/>

Image Above: Infinite Freedom Exercise (near Abadan, Iran) 2011
Date : 2011
Medium : Realtime 3D
Install : 8m x 6m custom LED wall
Site : Manchester International Festival 2011

Production Credits
Producer : Werner Poetzelberger
Programmer : Helmut Bressler
Dancer : Davide di Pretoro of Wayne McGregor / Random Dance
Lead modeller / texturing (character): Michael Maehring
Motion Capture : Bohemia Interactive / Stephan Kment
Motion capture data handling and animation: Arx Anima / Christoph Staber,
Patrick Zeymer, Stefan Kubicek, Paul Pammesberger
Lead modeller / texturing (environment) : Martin Hebestreit
Modeller / texturing (environment ): Benno Verschueren, Mason Doran
Production photographer : Jakob Polacsek
Original military documentation : dvidshub.net
Choreography developed in collaboration with Wayne McGregor

Credits : Commissioned and produced by Manchester International Festival and
Thomas Dane Gallery with the support of Outset Contemporary Art Fund and
Culture Ireland.
Image courtesy : The artist, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, Simon Preston
Gallery, New York