Free State Sample Clauses

Free State. History, as X.X. Xxxx said, is a great “moving procession”. We can’t look down on it from a great height. We look from within our own part of the procession, a distinct piece of history. The point at which we find ourselves in this procession determines our view of the world: past, present, and future. This study questions the methods through which architectural history is produced, and how history itself can be practiced. It situates itself alongside practitioners, practices, and theorists of architecture and architectural history in the expanded field. It is interested in site-specific practices of reading and writing, and interrogating other ways of understanding architectural history. It asks what this way of working adds that a traditional history may not, developing a form of architectural history that considers how method can be derived from site, and method can be considered as site. Here, the focus is the Irish border, which runs 310 miles from Lough Foyle to the Irish Sea. The border has divided the six counties of Northern Ireland from what is now the Republic since 1921. In the late 1980s, following the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, DUE 23 • 31 Mar 2017 • Re-reading the Irish Border, Xxx Xxxxxx writer Xxxx Xxxxxx walked the length of the border from Derry to Carlingford Lough. The documentation of this journey became his book Bad Blood: A Walk Along The Irish Border. 30 years later I am undertaking the same journey, taking Tóibín’s book as a map and retracing his route, walking the border each year for the next five years in order to understand its architectural, cultural, political, and poetic implications. The project questions how sites (architectures and landscapes) of the Irish border tell the story of its past and present condition, and is due to begin in Summer 2017, when the first full walk along the border will take place. The timing of this is critical; to be conducted as the centenary of the partition of Ireland approaches in 2021, and also as the UK exits the European Union. It will reconsider the border at a key moment of reflection since its creation, and through a time when its meaning and materiality may change significantly. Borders are very particular places, ones that can act as a point of separation between two adjacent territories, but also have the potential to act as a bridge between them (Xxxxxx & Xxxxx, 2012). They can also be considered distinct spaces in their own rights, as well as in terms of a series of pra...