Lecture by Niall McCullough at Umprumka

IRISH: GEOMETRY / HYBRIDITY

A lecture by Irish architect Niall McCullough from McCullough Mulvin Architects will take place on Tuesday, October 22, at 8 PM at the AAAD in Prague, room no. 115.

The architects at McCullough Mulvin Architects spend their lives in Ireland, where they work with the island's diffuse light and inhospitable materiality, creating investigative architecture of place – in this case, wild landscapes and small towns of the western world. Ireland represents a mix of old and new, rapidly changing, its culture centered on words; their architectural projects – houses, public buildings, libraries – thus have an intense character, posing questions of a rapidly changing world, openly exploring materials and forms that can appear in any scale. They combine work with writing and teaching, thus extracting the DNA from the city of James Joyce, Dublin, and creating projects for modern living that respond to its specific structure. They treat place as an archaeological site that requires time to trace individual layers; they strive for modern interventions in existing buildings and a formal response to old arrangements – a dance of culturally significant alternatives of form and memory.

The studio's work includes publishing, teaching, and research. The creation of McCullough Mulvin Architects has been exhibited in Germany, the UK, Spain (the 2011 Mies van der Rohe Award and World Architecture Festival), the Czech Republic, Portugal (Lisbon Triennial), and Italy (Venice Biennale). They have lectured about their work in Ireland, Spain, Germany, Norway, the UK, Scotland, Wales, Poland, and the USA. Niall McCullough maintains a close connection with architectural education and works as an external educator and critic in the UK and Ireland.

The lecture will be in English. Free entry.

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