• May 09 - Jun 14
  • 9.00am - 9.00am

Exhibition at RIAI: OTIUM drawing research by Ben Mullen Architects

  • Exhibitions
  • Dublin
Date:
Thursday 09 May 2024 - Friday 14 June 2024
Time:
9.00am - 9.00am
Cost:
Free
Location:
The Architecture Centre, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin 2

Event Information

OTIUM draws together research completed by ben mullen architects as part of the inaugural Eileen Gray E-1027 Research Fellowship 2023, with new work addressing themes of research by design in contemporary architectural practice.

The exhibition presents 108 drawings made during residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, analysing the image language of ‘Dysart’, an ongoing project by Tom de Paor in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, in which landscape, garden and domesticity coalesce with punk vernaculars in the production of a new, disciplined and performative architecture. The drawings were made in direct response to photographs taken by de Paor and Peter Maybury, an archive that documents Dysart’s diachronic development in time as both artefact and method.

This work is presented alongside contract documents, site photographs and ephemera from a domestic self-build project currently under construction by ben mullen architects in Wicklow Town. Together, the exhibition seeks to expand the theoretical framework and dominant methodologies of professional practice, reframing the building site as a place of sustained architectural experimentation where material culture, circular economics and the procurement of labour are re-evaluated under the geopolitical conditions of climate action.

Exhibition Opening Hours: The exhibition will run until the end of June, Monday to Friday, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm at the RIAI.