‘Momentum’ Review

Emmett has written a commissioned review of the inaugural exhibition, MOMENTUM. Momentum is curated by Nathalie Weadick and the Irish Architecture Foundation and features the work of architects Noreile Breen, Tom O Brien and PLATTENBAU Studio.

The review was commissioned by Visual Artists Ireland for their newsletter. An extract from the review is below.

“MOMENTUM is a truly welcome, ambitious addition to the rather irregular infrastructure of architecture exhibitions in Ireland. Yet, the curatorial approach raises a wider issue: the ubiquitous championing of those of a “new generation”, while here sincerely intended as support, is arguably a strategy successfully adopted by the Profession of architecture for decades. It is one which has surely contributes to “youth” being equated with inexperience, inexperience being (deliberately yet inaccurately) associated with risk, all tacitly used to sustain a commissioning culture intended to secure work for the usual few not the growing, diverse many. MOMENTUM is here to stay, and so are these architects, all ready.”