The Reason of Towns exhibition in Thurles

Opening on Saturday 11 January in The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, as part of a national tour across Ireland in 2024 and 2025, The Reason of Towns is an engaging and provocative exhibition by the Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) of the work of one of Ireland’s most renowned architects, Valerie Mulvin.

Curated, commissioned and produced by the IAF, this touring exhibition features models, drawings, texts, and a series of slides, notes, personal memorabilia, and building fragments. In addition, The Reason of Towns exhibition presents three specially commissioned films: “The Space Is the Thing” is a spatial-portrait of Clones, Youghal, Dungarvan and Templemore, describing their ‘ordinary-spectacular’ forms; “Of Pride and Place” documents ten optimistic stories of action and change by architects working in towns across Ireland; while, finally, the exhibition also presents a new interview with Valerie Mulvin by broadcaster Vincent Woods, reflecting on her work and the subject of the exhibition.

The self-guided exhibition is free to attend on a drop-in basis during The Source opening hours:
10am to 5pm on Tuesday to Friday
2pm to 5pm on Saturday