No fixed form: the Infra-Éireann – Making Ireland Modern pavilion and the sites of modernity

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dc.contributor.authorBoyd, Gary Archibald
dc.contributor.authorMcLaughlin, John
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-31T11:56:27Z
dc.date.available2018-05-31T11:56:27Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the relationship between architectural design and research in the context of a particular example, the development of the Irish pavilion for the 14th architectural biennale in Venice 2014 (Infra-Éireann) and its reiteration and expansion in Ireland for the State’s centennial celebrations 1916–2016 (Making Ireland Modern). Originally responding to Rem Koolhaas’s call to investigate the international absorption of modernity, the pavilion sought to engage with the properties of the architectures of infrastructure in twentieth and twenty-first-century Ireland. Central to this proposition was that infrastructure is simultaneously a technological and cultural construct, one that for Ireland occupied a critical position in the building of a new, independent post-colonial nation state. Presupposing infrastructure as consisting of both visible and invisible networks, the idea of a matrix became a central theoretical and visual tool in the curatorial and design process for both the pavilion and its contents. To begin with this was a two-dimensional grid used to identify and order what became described as a series of ten infrastructural episodes. These were determined chronologically across the decades between 1916 and 2016 and their spatial manifestations articulated in terms of scale: micro, meso and macro. What emerged in the design and research process was a dialectic relationship between the pavilion and its content as logistical and conceptual concerns merged to realise an adaptive framed modular structure, imagined as an embodied manifesto and, analogous to infrastructure, as having no fixed form.en
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dc.identifier.citationBoyd, G. A. and McLaughlin, J. (2018) 'No fixed form: the Infra-Éireann – Making Ireland Modern pavilion and the sites of modernity', ARENA Journal of Architectural Research, 3(1), 3 (19pp). doi: 10.5334/ajar.60en
dc.identifier.doi10.5334/ajar.60
dc.identifier.endpage19
dc.identifier.issn2397-0820
dc.identifier.issued2018
dc.identifier.journaltitleARENA Journal of Architectural Researchen
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/6220
dc.identifier.volume3
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUbiquity Pressen
dc.relation.urihttps://ajar.arena-architecture.eu/articles/10.5334/ajar.60/
dc.rights© 2018, the Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectArchitectureen
dc.subjectIrelanden
dc.subjectModernityen
dc.subjectVenice biennaleen
dc.subjectExhibitionsen
dc.subjectPavilionen
dc.titleNo fixed form: the Infra-Éireann – Making Ireland Modern pavilion and the sites of modernityen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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