Ruth Morrow | Gestagangur

Ruth Morrow is an Architect and a Professor of Architecture at Queen's University Belfast. She is a guest teacher at the Department of Design and Architecture at the Iceland University of the Arts and is teaching students in architecture. During her visit Morrow will also give a lecture open to the public.

In this lecture Ruth Morrow will discuss the practices she engages in that sit half within, half without academia and architecture. Her work covers a spectrum of socially engaged practice and radical material development, all within the context of post-conflict, pre-brexit Northern Ireland. She will discuss the special role that architectural education can play in any given context - as a ‘Spaces of Rehearsal’ - not just for students but for those who surround and are connected to and through, architecture courses. She argues that architecture is whatever the architect does, so this lecture is especially for those who have ever doubted their place in architecture, but also for all others interested in the role of architects and architecture.

The lecture will be 6^th of March at 12:15 in lecture hall A, Þverholt 11.

It will be in English and everyone is welcome!

 

The Department of Design and Architecture introduces a series of Spring 2019 lectures under the title Gestagangur

Gestagangur is intended to provide an insight into some interesting projects and research in design and architecture. The lecturers are all part-time tutors or visiting tutors from abroad at the Faculty of Design and Architecture. They have all attracted attention for specific projects in the field of design or architecture, and have achieved international recognition for their work.