Architecture Week 16-25 June 2006

2006 marks the tenth anniversary of Architecture Week, the annual national public celebration of historical and contemporary architecture in the UK, which this year takes place from
16 – 25 June. 

The week aims to explore architecture and the built environment via the arts and culture in an entertaining and informative way. A rolling schedule of activities has been organised and co-ordinated through Arts Council England, Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and Architecture Centre Network offices across the country.

This year’s theme is ‘The Power of Ten’ and the week will showcase over 500 events across the UK - many organised on the idea of 10 - featuring celebrated architects and celebrities, exhibitions, talks and tours.   Full details can be found at Architecture Week.

Scotland's Centre for Architecture Design and the City, The Lighthouse in Glasgow is hosting this year's Architecture Week events in Scotland.

Architecture Week Scotland 2006 provides a series of walks, talks, tours, events and exhibitions that capture the diversity of Scotland’s architectural landscape. This year the programme celebrates the best of the old and the new and looks at how places and buildings adapt to change.

So whether it is Edinburgh’s Old Town, Glasgow’s huge River Clyde regeneration and ambitious Commonwealth Games plan, the small and unique Maggie’s Centres in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Inverness, the groundbreaking modernism of Marcel Breuer and East Kilbride, the historic green spaces of Glasgow Green, Necropolis and George Square or the wonder of Mackintosh, this is your chance to admire the old and learn about the new.

2006 marks the 10th anniversary of Architecture Week, to celebrate their birthday Architecture Week are launching a series of postage stamps featuring Maggie’s Dundee by Frank Gehry and the award winning An Turas Wind Shelter on Tiree by Sutherland Hussey Architects.

Highlights

Toby Paterson at Tramway, Glasgow

To mark the installation of Tramway’s first commission for a  permanent artwork in the building, Creative Scotland winner Toby Paterson will give a talk on his practice. Tramway has commissioned Toby and Glasgow - based NORD Architects to design and install the artwork in the doorway to Tramway 2, the art centre’s internationally celebrated main gallery.

One of the UK’s foremost contemporary artists, Toby Paterson works in a number of forms, from large-scale wall paintings and assemblages to smaller sculptural works and paintings on perspex. His work is influenced  by experience of the built environment, with a particular focus on post-war architecture and an interest in processes of abstraction within visual art. 

Toby won the Beck’s Futures Award in 2002. He plays with the ideas of the integration of art and architecture, incorporating the painterly, the structural, the material, the minimal and the brutal. He won Beck's Futures in 2002 for his large-scale, colour-rich dramatic wall painting, We Fall Into Patterns Quickly, along the ICA's 69 foot concourse, which was based on an architectural facade designed by Berthold Lubetkin in 1951, and recently was selected for British Art Show 6.

Marcel Breuer - Design and Architecture at the Lighthouse, Glasgow 16 June to 27 August 2006

The Marcel Breuer retrospective which is being held at the Lottery funded Lighthouse in Glasgow, follows on from a major exhibition on Modernism at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. This is the only UK showing of this major exhibition and features furniture, photographs, models and drawings from the Bauhaus graduate and teacher, who influenced a generation of architects across the world.

One of the 20th Century’s most influential designer/architects, Marcel Breue, began his career as a designer for Bauhaus in the 1920s and at the age of 23 revolutionised furniture design by inventing tubular steel.  In the ‘30s he relocated to New York with his mentor, Walter Gropius, to pursue a career in architecture.  While in the US he went on to design some of the world’s most iconic public buildings such as the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Unesco Head Quarters in Paris; both of which noted for their sculptural use of concrete. 

Curated by the Vitra Design Museum in commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Breuer’s death, the exhibition traces his remarkable career from early furniture designs to detailed 3-D models of 12 of his keynote buildings. 

Tickets: £3.00 & £1.00  / Booking and information: +44(0)141 221 6362 The Lighthouse

Architrailer - on the road

The Lighthouse and Chris Stewart Architects, whose recently completed Boilerhouse @ Hidden Gardens project also featured in the infrastructure section of this website, have worked with artist Rob Kennedy to produce a film that documents the events.

Architecture Week at Scottish Storytelling Centre

As part of Architecture Week 2006, Architecture and Design Scotland is teaming up with Edinburgh World Heritage to host ‘New Tales From The Old Town’ - a public event at the recently opened Lottery funded Scottish Storytelling Centre.

Exploring the question 'How do you design new buildings in the heart of a World Heritage Site?', the event will be a chance to hear from A+DS’ Deputy Chair Malcolm Fraser about the character of Scotland’s historic capital and the challenges associated with designing for historic contexts. Participants will have the opportunity both to put questions to Malcolm about his experiences and take an exclusive look at the new Scottish Storytelling Centre.

New Tales From The Old Town will take place on
Saturday 17th June from 2-4pm.

It is free to all attendees and the venue has wheelchair access. Numbers are limited so to assure your place, please contact officeadministrator@ads.org.uk

Architecture Week Scotland

Contact:  The Lighthouse
tel: 0141 225 8413
E mail at archweek@thelighthouse.co.uk