Imagining Pasts, Remembering Futures: 13th Annual Conference of the All-Ireland Architecture Research Group (AIARG)

This conference is hosted by the Department of History of Art and Architecture.

The theme for the 13th annual conference of the All-Ireland Architecture Research Group (AIARG) invites discussion on how architecture imagines and reimagines its history in preparing for the future.
Our title derives from historian Lewis Namier via Roy Foster’s recent remembrance of the histories written by architect Niall McCullough. To imagine the past and remember the future upends our expectations of how we relate to both and shifts our focus from the spatial to the temporal in architecture.

In this conference, we propose to invert the traditional relationship between architecture, time, and design. We invite architects, architectural historians, architectural writers, and educators to reflect on the relationship between history and architecture, to rethink historical research as an imaginative practice that illuminates the present and the future, and to consider time as a vital material of designing and building.

Please indicate if you have any access requirements, such as ISL/English interpreting, so that we can facilitate you in attending this event. Contact: navarrme@tcd.ie