Scotland’s three-week festival of architecture

Buildings.

Now in its fourth year, Scotland’s Architecture Fringe festival takes the theme ‘In Real Life’, exploring “the fabric of everyday life, the contradictions it creates, and the opportunities it presents”, say the curators. It asks­– in a world where the only constant is rapid change – how architecture can help us to understand and navigate the complexities of modern life.

Top: at Glasgow’s Lighthouse, Dress for the Weather presents the ‘Architecture Bar’, serving as platform for a Conversation Menu (ph: Gordon Burniston).
Above, clockwise from top left: at a two-day event, architect Lee Ivett and developer Duncan Blackmore will launch ‘Kiosk’, a Govanhill building that “proposes a new adaptive and small-scale civic typology”; Edinburgh panel discussion ‘House Rules’ explores the state of volume housebuilding; the ‘Love at First Sight’ installation by Morag Myerscough in Aberdeen references Mercat Cross as a public gathering point; ASPECT:Cinema presents ‘Design Me Happy’ a film exploring how architecture affects mental health

Among more than 100 events taking place across Scotland over the festival’s three-week period are talks, exhibitions, performances and installations. Highlights include lectures by Peter Barber, Page\Park, Eric Parry and Jamie Fobert, a pavilion constructed from paper chains by Sarah Betts and Cecile Perdu, and ‘ReTypes’, an installation investigating the adaptive repurposing of imagined existing buildings featuring newly commissioned work by Ann Nisbet Studio, Moxon, Studio Niro and You+Pea.

‘Architecture Fringe’
Across Scotland
7­-23 June 2019
Details: architecturefringe.com