Architectural exhibition Nine Lives explores our interaction with space

From now until September 27, the National Craft Gallery in Kilkenny hosts an exhibition of work from nine emerging architectural practices. 

Called Nine Lives — with the sub-heading of ‘everyday stories of architectural design and enthusiastic use’, it’s self-explanatory in that it focuses on eight houses and one outdoor classroom designed and built on the island of Ireland since 2009.

Unlike other architecture exhibitions which focus on design and build, curator Emmett Scanlon took a different approach, the result of which is an exhibition showing that rooms have stories to tell and that people’s lives become bound up in the making and using of rooms and buildings.