Busaras

Master of All the Muses, Michael Scott 1905-1989 is presented by the Irish Architecture Foundation at the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Emmet Place, during Festival of Architecture Cork 2005, Ireland's first architecture festival sponsored by John F Supple Ltd. The exhibition, designed by Scott Tallon Walker Architects, opens on June 24, the centenary of Michael Scott's birth and continues until July 23. Admission is free.

Master of All the Muses features drawings and photographs of Michael Scott's most important buildings, portraits by Seán O'Sullivan, Louis le Brocquy and Robert Ballagh, film footage, medals and topographical sketches by Michael Scott.

Michael Scott was not only Ireland's most celebrated architect - the symbolic "father of modern architecture" in the country - but also one of the major figures in 20th-century Irish culture. The range of his achievements is awesome: an Abbey actor who toured theatres across the United States and starred in London productions before abandoning the stage for architecture, he was also a leading patron and champion of all the visual arts, from architecture to stamp design.

To mark the centenary of Michael Scott's birth, his daughter Ciarin Scott is making a feature documentary tracing her father's remarkable and often controversial life. The film examines the accolades and criticisms surrounding some of his finest work such as Busáras, the Abbey Theatre, Geragh (his iconic home at Sandycove, County Dublin) and Ireland's "Shamrock" pavilion at the 1939 New York's World's Fair. It includes hitherto unseen archival footage, much of it shot by Scott himself. The film is due to be broadcast by RTE later in the year and shown internationally in cinemas and at film festivals worldwide. A 6-minute promotional film giving a flavour of the full version will be shown at the centenary exhibition in Cork.