Cork Centre for Architectural Education: MARSEILLE: Master in Architecture Exhibition

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Discover this year’s Master of Architecture Exhibition. Visitors can expect an array of drawings, models and films that describe new architectural proposals for the city of Marseille.

Surrounded by the Mediterranean and a transit point into Europe from North Africa, Marseille is both a space of crisis and of communication. It is, in a sense, full of contradiction and paradox.

The city has its own epistemic kind of latitude; a strange type of milieu or middle-space between Eastern and Western Europe that hinges and ensnares the populations and spaces of Northern and Southern Africa around it.

The focus this year evolves distinct architectural positions that produced new poetic types of architecture – centred around urban incompletions and alternative natures.