CULTURE FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE
The Festival of Architecture will feature events the length and breadth of the country, including ‘Cakefest’, in which a map of Scotland will be created out of cake
A map of Scotland made of cake, a Lego festival and some celebrity- endorsed garden sheds: welcome to the wacky world of architecture
If you thought architecture was all technical drawing and grey buildings, you might have to think again
BY KEVIN O’SULLIVAN W
hen I talk to Karen Cunningham, Di- rector of the Fes- tival of Architec- ture, architecture
being part of Event Scotland’s latest themed year, she is busy arranging
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some publicity photographs for one of its 400 or more events: the Ideal Hut show. It’s ironic, she says laughing,
that she’s felt the need for a series of images with people in them, given buildings is the focus for the year-long celebration, but organisers want to engage the public as much as possible and bricks and mortar – as exciting as they might be to some – can occasionally be brought to life by human interaction. “It’s funny as when we looked at
what we had available, we obviously had lots of great buildings, but not
much in the way of people shots. We think the Ideal Hut show is some- thing really engaging as well. We’re taking bog standard, or I should perhaps say standard model garden sheds, and are letting them be transformed by leading architects, designers and celebrities.” Celebrities piques my interest
further. Which ones, I ask? “I’m afraid that’s as much as I’m
going to say,” Karen adds, tight lipped. “We’ve got a huge pro- gramme of events going on right across the year and we don’t want to reveal everything at once; we want
to hold onto a few surprises.” Tat’s an understandable senti-
ment as the Festival of Architecture – part of the overall Year of Innova- tion, Architecture and Design, YIAD to those in the know – is a huge undertaking. It is, Karen argues, the biggest ever single arts event, albeit comprising numerous smaller events under its auspices, that has ever taken place in Scotland. As fortunes have it, or not in this
case, the launch event is actually taking place just days after we pub- lish, so there is no scope to review it. Tat said, ‘Hinterland’ does sound
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