GSA Architecture Week Lecture 2023 - Consequence and Cause by Andrew Clancy

Consequence and Cause:
Architecture, as a pure idea, is an unstable thing. Emergent from other processes, shaped by impulses far beyond its control, and framing the lives of people we will never meet, architecture is at its fullest when understood by its relationship to other things. At once consequence and cause. Its edges are unclear. Its innate nature of being interlaced with other things means it is a promiscuous discipline, by nature amorphous. At once ubiquitous and often invisible. And yet for all this, the idea of the thing called architecture persists. A weaving of place, material and people - with our constructed habitat acting at once as archive and laboratory. This will be a talk about an architecture practice, based in Ireland - Clancy Moore Architects - set up in the teeth of the great Irish financial collapse of 2008. Flawed in its formation, and forever reforming its task, it gathered itself in conversation. Propelled by congruences between unalike things, chance and circumstance, ideas and possibilities become to be understood as a clear line of thinking.
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Andrew completed his PhD at RMIT in 2017. Since 2016 he has been Professor of Architecture in the Kingston School of Art, London and has led innovative developments encompassing practice research, pedagogic reform and scholarly culture. He has recently been appointed as Guest Professor to the Accademia dell’Architettura Mendrisio. Prior to this he was visiting professor to Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark and Senior Lecturer at Queen’s University, Belfast. He has been External Examiner to the AA since 2019 and has critiqued and led workshops in numerous universities including ETH, Mendrisio, EPFL, TUM, Miami, Kaiserslauten, London Met, TU Dublin, and UCD. In 2016 he co-founded the Drawing Matter Summer school, which in collaboration with Hauser and Wirth Somerset, provides a fully funded architecture course to A-Level students and acts as an incubator for emerging tutors of architecture. Andrew writes critically about architecture and has published extensively in leading journals. 
www.clancymoore.com