Fri, Feb 26 / 7 pm
Directed by Sé Merry Doyle
2014, Ireland, 90 min
Architecture+Film is an ongoing series of films which focus on architecture and design, co-presented by the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation – a charitable organization dedicated to advancing the awareness and appreciation of Winnipeg’s built environment through public education.
Introduced by Irish Architectural Historian Paul Clerkin.
Modern architecture in Ireland reached a high point in the early ’60s and one of its most celebrated figures was Robin Walker. Robin studied under Le Corbusier and later worked alongside Mies van der Rohe in Chicago. Upon his return to Ireland he became
a key agent in the shaping of the emerging modern nation. Looking again to Dublin’s streets which he has so faithfully recorded in earlier works (James Gandon, A Life; Alive, Alive Oh!), Sé Merry Doyle follows his son, Simon Walker, a quarter of a century
after Robin’s death. The film allows Walker’s buildings to speak for themselves, taking us with Simon in his search for Robin’s architecture of place.
Sponsored by Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation
