Architecture puts on a show for the public

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2005 / March 10

Two exhibitions - one at the V&A in London, the other at the Irish Architectural Archive's new home in Dublin - show what architecture through the ages is all about. There's a thrill to be had in opening a drawer and glaring down at a drawing by Inigo Jones; shut that and open up a Le Corbusier; then Mies van der Rohe; now Palladio: and then have Frank Lloyd Wright's All-steel house slide beneath your eyes. Architecture is becoming more accessible and this set of drawers, near the entrance to the Architecture Gallery in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, is just one of the many ways all comers can look at models and drawings, listen to lectures and perhaps engage in debates about urban design and country living.

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