The exhibition which runs from 21 February-15 March 2022 features the work of the final years architecture students from 2021 and 2022
'Life is a dream - architecture between ethics & politics', an exhibition of work by 5th year Architectural Students, at the Department of Architecture & Built Environment, Waterford Institute of Technology welcomed Minster for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD on his historic visit to Waterford.
The exhibition which runs from 21 February-15 March 2022 is based at Waterford’s Garter Lane, around the corner from the Granary campus in the city centre where architecture students are based.
This year’s exhibition consists of the work of two sets of final year (5th year) architecture students.
Head of the Department of Architecture & Built Environment, Máire Henry said: “The official launch of the exhibition went really well. We had a great crowd of students, some parents and a lot of the general public along. We also had Minister Harris who kindly popped in as we were preparing the exhibition on Monday. I would like to express sincere thanks to all our students and to my colleague Aleksandar Kostic, 5th year tutor for organising the exhibition.”
Aleksandar Kostic, Architectural Design Studio lecturer explains the background to the exhibition:
“In the first semester of their final year of study, students of architecture at WIT read and respond to classical texts and stories. Through these stories, ancient people were introduced to the marvels and perils of the human condition in the world. They played a crucial role in forming a responsible citizen and led to their full emotional, intellectual, ethical, and spiritual development. To articulate an architectural design response to critical contemporary issues, the students use these narratives to inquire into a given topic through exclusively spatial exploration – by making a series of models."
he continues: "2021 final year students read the ancient tragedy of Sophocles – Antigone and investigated the tension between natural and human laws and the bearing this has on the responsibilities of an architect towards the built environment and society. The current generation of final year students explored many possible interpretations of Calderon’s rich drama Life is a Dream.”
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