Theatre of Operations: drawing as embodiment and empowerment

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Architect Jo Van Den Berghe KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture, Brussels/Ghent, Belgium

Drawing may be considered as the most prominent activity of a designing architect, who draws with different media ranging from the pencil to the computer mouse. The act of drawing is a multi-layered, multi-sensorial activity with a significant impact on creativity, creative output, thinking and knowledge production. It is above all an act with a long history related to mankind, hence to many disciplines that adopt the map, the symbol, the sketch, the plan, the section, the detail …, and all relate these to their discipline specific acts of drawing.

For Jo Van Den Berghe drawing is also a way of questioning the architectural construction and its mediation. It is an exploratory journey into depths of unveiling perspectives of the architectural drawing and the craftsmanship of the architect beyond today. Although indispensable to anatomise, drawing sections is crucial and should come up-front, but it is not limited to the common vertical section.

It includes fascination drawing (embodying and perceiving), cinematic drawing (detection of points of (p)reference), proposition drawing, section drawing, X-ray drawing, chronological drawing, anatomical drawing … n-drawings, applied to explore the meaning of drawing and the new gateways and avenues drawing can generate for normative architectural drawing (thinking) and its risk of stagnation.

Jo Van Den Berghe will focus on two specific ways of drawing, applied by the thinking architect: the (preliminary) sketch as the main catcher of ideas, and the handmade architectural drawing as a slow process of embodied understanding.

Drawing is Thinking

Lecture by Tom De Paor

Tom de Paor is one of Ireland’s most original and internationally renowned architects, with his practice in Dublin.

His work for architectural culture spans between buildings like Pálás Cinema in Galway and curation of the Irish pavilion at Venice Biennale 2010, his own exhibition in the same Biennale as well as 7th Biennale with a Martyrium in Peat, N3, the inaugural Irish representation in year 2000.

By invitation from E Hatz and G Carty SAUL School of Architecture Year 4

SAUL Lecture series, Autumn AY2019/20

Catherine Fitzgerald, Landscape Designer and Gardener

‘CONSERVATION AND INNOVATION IN HISTORIC GARDENS’

Glin Castle

Co. Limerick

Lecture:  13h00 Tuesday October 29^th

Venue:  SAUL Studio Room CG-042

AIARG, All-Ireland Architecture Research Group
9th Annual Conference,

Limerick, 23 + 24 January 2020

Course Talk & Portfolio Preparation Workshop for 2nd Level and Mature Applicants to LM099 “Architecture”

As part of the SAUL Lecture Series 2019 Portuguese architect Alexandre Dias will present two Social Housing Projects in Lisbon, “Bairro Padre Cruz” and “Bairro da Boavista.”

The cream of design from graduating students of architecture and product design in UL will go on public display in the Fab Lab Limerick in Limerick’s City Centre, as part of University of Limerick’s Design@UL showcase 2019.

Sorcha O'Higgins: Collage Artist, Architect, Journalist
Talk in SAUL Main Studio from 5pm.

Sean Griffiths will trace themes that informed his work over the last 25 years. He will discuss the work of his former practice FAT, his practice as a teacher and his current work as an installation artist. The lecture will consider the nature of architectural meaning. It will show how the mediated significations of Post Modernism can make way for a re-engagement with the idea of “truth”.

Emmet is an Architect, Academic, and Curator, based in Dublin (and part of the team at the Venice Biennale 2018).