M.Arch Book Launch

The latest publication from the M.Arch embedded research programme will be launched at the opening of the school show on 7th June.

This programme has at its core a shared belief that Architectures power derives from the resolution of problems which while simply described are rich and complex in their realisation.   These concerns are not theoretical or academic, but physical and necessary;  how light enters a room, how one moves through a plan, how a wall meets a roof, how one rises in section.  An architects value derives from the rich engagement with these questions to produce meaningful structures to support inhabitation.  Ours is a poetry of the pragmatic.
Too often overlooked in the context of loftier agendas these questions are placed at the heart of Studio 1 in the QUB Masters programme.  Each year a very specific aspect of architecture is chosen to explore in depth and to inform the design work in the studio.  In previous years we have examined light from above and the relationship between window and room.  In 2012 we chose to examine circulation space, more specifically the stair-hall.
This book is both a cataolgue of spatial and detail arrangement of 32 exemplars of such spaces and a collection of essays and interviews which complement the study. The book will be available to purchase from SPACE at Queens and from selected bookshops from August 2012.
Masters Co-Ordinator: Michael McGarry
Module Co-Ordinators: Andrew Clancy, Colm Moore
Studio Tutors: Alan Jones, Alice Casey, Gary Lysaght, Kieran O’Brien, Kieran McGonigle
Editors: Dayle Fullerton, Blayne Fulton, Nicola Graham, Lisa Hunter, Philip Orr, Emma Vaughan, Charlene Wilson.
Sponsors: QUB Students, School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPACE), Kennedy Fitzgerald & Associates, McGarry Ni Eanaigh Architects, Grafton Architects, Todd Architects, Windsor Photoprints, Royal Institute of Ulster Architects (RSUA), Clancy Moore Architects