With a body of work firmly in the heart of architectural theory and discourse, Robert Maxwell was a highly regard architect, writer and educator known for critical writing that focuses on modern and contemporary architecture in relation to a wider culture that included art, literature and music.
This exhibition – in the centenary year of Maxwell’s birth – covers sixty years of his writing on transatlantic architectural practice and theory. Like many an Irishman before him, Robert Maxwell moved to Liverpool and hardly looked back. However, his ideas about architecture and the city conceived during his period at Liverpool University and later developed would eventually travel to the city of Dublin and become manifest in the redevelopment of Temple Bar.
