Architecture Fringe set to take over The Lighthouse with 2019 programme

The production team of the Architecture Fringe will take over The Lighthouse in central Glasgow for the whole of June as part of its 2019 programme.

Exploring the In Real Life provocation, this year’s core programme will see the building packed with new commissioned work, key events and it sell-out opening party.

Architecture Fringe set to take over The Lighthouse with 2019 programme

The Architecture Fringe production team – Image credit Robb Mcrae

Early highlights of the core programme include an exploration of queered space through the queer Glasgow club scene and an exhibition investigating the adaptive re-purposing of imagined existing buildings by some of the UK’s most exciting practices including Ann Nisbet Studio and You + Pea.



Architect Peter Barber will deliver this year’s big lecture.

This year’s Architecture Fringe is set to be the biggest festival to date. The open call for the fourth edition of the ArchiFringe received more than 80 submissions with events, exhibitions, installations, performances, talks, screenings and a summer school due to take place across Scotland this coming June.

Early highlights of the open programme include talks by Jamie Fobert with The Common Guild and Richard Sennett with the Test Unit summer school. Broadcaster Lesley Riddoch will discuss contemporary land activism with The Shieling Project and designer Morag Myerscough will explore chance encounter, love and the Doric dialect with Look Again Festival in Aberdeen.

The Architecture Fringe 2019 will take place across Scotland from 8 to 24 June 2019.



The full programme of events will be announced online on May 3.


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