007 - Natalie Christensen is the seventh in an ongoing collaboration with Open Doors Gallery publishing the work of emerging photographers. "Like many artists who come from the Southwest, I was immediately...
A quarterly journal of fine art, design, architecture, photography, sculpture, heritage, decorative arts and crafts.IN THE ISSUEA detail from Atsushi Kaga’s painting Usacchi in an Irish Landscape (Dublin 8) graces...
In the face of the global challenges of the future, there is one decisive factor that is rarely mentioned: massive urbanisation. Today, around two-thirds of the world’s population lives in...
‘The house of the future will be designed as a ship is designed, as an organism which has to function properly in all its parts. A whole row of ambiguous...
‘Simplicity of life is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement : a sanded floor and whitewashed walls, and the green trees ; or a grimy palace amid the smoke...
Architecture has historically functioned as both shelter and a tool for power that can establish dominance and exclusion, often failing to accommodate diverse needs and ways of being. In this...
Few modern buildings in Dublin capture the imagination like the US Embassy. Designed in the 1950s by a young American architect, John M. Johansen, it opened to acclaim in May of 1964....
Leading architect Reinier de Graaf punctures the myths of contemporary architecture No longer does it suffice to judge a building solely by its appearance; it must be measured and certified....
Climate breakdown, environmental justice, urban expansion, metropolitanisation. A multiplicity of dynamics are driving rapid infrastructural transitions, transforming cultures of movement. But these changes are all-too-often narrated at scales that surpass...
Lamentation practices can empower the potentiality to defy patriarchal orders ruling everyday life. Always a collective process, lamentation inscribes loss and vulnerability by tending bridges towards the world of the...
Whether in Tokyo, Madrid, or Paris, our latest crop of interiors defies the growing uniformity of urban landscapes by affirming their uniqueness. Indeed, a new kind of financialised architecture is...
A quarterly journal of fine art, design, architecture, photography, sculpture, heritage, decorative arts and crafts.IN THE ISSUEAilbhe Ní Bhriain’s Familiar Sun graces the cover of the autumn edition. Ní Bhriain’s...
This year's calendar features stunning photography of Brutalist architecture from Mexico City to Leeds.This limited edition monthly wall calendar is a celebration of the some of the most awe-inspiring and...
'A mixture between the periodicity of a traditional newspaper and the content of today’s contemporary magazine’ First published in 2024, each issue of the quarterly Zeitung adopts its publication date as its...
Gerry Cahill is an Irish architect whose built work is primarily in housing, and primarily in Dublin. Most of Cahill’s homes were delivered with local authorities, voluntary organisations, or approved...
Grab a bag, pack your passport, camera, some sunglasses, swimminggear, and sturdy shoes, because this issue of The Modernist is heading OUTSIDE. Covering everything from cemeteries, to art in supermarket...
The first issue of The Modernist on the ‘O’ theme. Here we take on OBJECT and encounter items that while everyday are anything but mundane. Some classic designs from the...
A neighbourhood whole is often greater than the sum of its parts, and whilst the architecture and buildings are key components in creating a neighbourhood, it is the inhabitants that...
A quarterly journal of fine art, design, architecture, photography, sculpture, heritage, decorative arts and crafts. In this issue: The Ireland–U.S. Council and Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award at the Royal...
A quarterly journal of fine art, design, architecture, photography, sculpture, heritage, decorative arts and crafts. ÉIMEAR O’CONNOR delights in Petters’ botanical creations and her exquisitely fine verre eglomisé paintings, while...
Harvard Design Magazine 52: Instruments of Service' poses a simple question: What do architects actually make and how is this changing? At a moment when the word "design" has come...
Throughout their history, architecture exhibitions have embraced different approaches and constructed other modes of action within the discipline, playing a pivotal role in disseminating, diffusing, and experimenting with architectural culture....
Juri Velt explores potential scenarios emerging with the disappearance of a segment of society in a mountain town. Three tales unfold in the voids left by its departure, unravelling the...
The notion of 'The Well' is rich in metaphorical and symbolic potential for Melbourne-based artist Sarah Walker. Doubling as the title for her third book for Perimeter Editions, the idea...
After Architekturfotografie, its latticed step sister Pompei, Pompeii and the xerox-classic Models Bianca Pedrina continues her artistic journey through architectural incongruities.The title Architekturfotografie is intentionally misleading, as the Swiss artist Bianca...
A limited edition monthly wall calendar to celebrate of some of the most awe-inspiring and influential examples of Brutalist architecture around the world. This year's calendar features stunning photography of Brutalist...
A quarterly journal of fine art, design, architecture, photography, sculpture, heritage, decorative arts and crafts.
This issue celebrates 40 years (1984-2024).
Published by Irish Arts ReviewSoftcover128 pages300 x 230 mmISBN 977164921710411
Pig Pen is a collection of drawings by Rory Mullen. Taking the form of an artist’s sketchbook, the drawings act as notes, designs and proposals for future works. Drawing is...
Cocoa & Jasmine is an annual print magazine made in India which explores the global south. Part travel journal, part cultural documentary, Cocoa & Jasmine seeks out makers, traditional textiles,...
Cocoa & Jasmine is an annual print magazine made in India which explores the global south. Part travel journal, part cultural documentary, Cocoa & Jasmine seeks out makers, traditional textiles,...
Cocoa & Jasmine is an annual print magazine made in India which explores the global south. Part travel journal, part cultural documentary, Cocoa & Jasmine seeks out makers, traditional textiles, architecture and...
A True Record is the creative response to Marlay House by Grace Wilentz and Jane Cummins with documentary photographs by Aisling McCoy. Marlay House, dating to the 17th/18th centuries, is...
A quarterly journal of fine art, design, architecture, photography, sculpture, heritage, decorative arts and crafts. IN THIS ISSUE: Renowned Japanese war photographer Akihiko Okamura moved to Ireland in 1969 and...
This collaborative project between visual artist, Brian Teeling and arts writer, Jennie Taylor explores Crawford Art Gallery’s buildings and its immediate surroundings through a printed publication which is populated by...
The title of this publication, Rich Views, takes its name from the physical location of the Richview campus where the architecture facilities of UCD are held. Richview occupies a peripheral...
This anthology is a critical reflection on the making of Soil Lab, a project built with a community in North Lawndale, Chicago, and hosted by the Danish Arts Foundation at...
Since the Boyer of 1996 of ‘Building Communities: A New future for Architectural Education and Practice’ there has been some movements in architectural and design schools and practitioners exploring ways...
The ‘north’ is subjective. The Modernist is produced out of Manchester and, as such, they consider themselves to be northerners. However, to their Scottish cousins this is nonsense: to them...
Coracle Press: An Irish Potato patch, is a quirky list of 11 old potato varieties. Coracle got the list from the 2008 Potato Report from Irish Seed Savers, Scarrif, County...
When we think of modernism, we immediately think of the shiny and new. However, what was once cherished can soon become unloved, ignored, and neglected. This issue looks at things...
Michael Scott’s Áras Mhic Dhiarmada and Busáras is one of the most important modernist buildings in Ireland. Built between 1947 and 1953, it was intended to be a bus station...
Contemporary architectural criticism tends to focus on the theories and concepts behind buildings. Yet there is much to be learned by venturing beyond the library walls to contemplate the real...
In Stanisław Lem’s novel Fiasco (1986) the attempts to communicate with the inhabitants of a distant planet fail because of the human crew’s inability to distinguish the members of this society...
An exciting new series from industry leader Victionary, BRANDlife examines immersive brand experience across a variety of consumer or service related businesses in the fields of hospitality, retail and dining....
Concept stores and pop-ups are all about discovery and stimulation. In a world where shopping options abound in the digital realm alone, perceptive brands are pushing creative boundaries to weave...
This innovative and unique book is a visual guide to the buildings that surround us. Architectural features are pinpointed and labelled on images of buildings so that, unlike with other...
This book explains, in simple steps and non-mathematical terminology, how to create repeat patterns in a line, on the plane, as tiles and as Escher-like repeats. The book also...
Contemporary mythologies are out there, in the urban chaos. Monsters, giants, constructions, spirits and creatures of all sorts tell the cities’ everyday life struggles if one is willing to listen...
Humans lack the capacity to comprehend geological time, a breadth unfathomable from our biological perspective. Our callous extraction of resources negates the patience of geomorphology. The Burren’s karst landscape instinctively...
This second publication in the Exchange Series, Dublin Exchange responds to a specific moment in the city’s architecture history. In 2021, architect Niall McCullough (1958–2021) died. McCullough was one of...
A limited edition monthly wall calendar to celebrate of some of the most awe-inspiring and influential examples of Brutalist architecture around the world. The 2024 edition calendar features stunning photography of...
Housing Unlocked: Ideas from a Living Room is the companion book which gathers the ideas, ambitions and debates of the award-winning Housing Unlocked architecture exhibition. Housing Unlocked is a collaboration...
Photographs by Erica Van Horn of Ulrich Ruckreim's barn housing his sculptures in Clonegal on the border between Co. Carlow and Co. Wexford in Ireland. Reprinted issued as part of...
Living Locally No.12 With age, Tom Browne has given up his building jobs. Now he works on small houses in his shed. He uses real building materials whenever possible, as...
A Room with a View takes place in and around the Pensione Seguso, a historic, family-run hotel in Venice. Guided by architecture professor Verena von Beckerath, the contributions to this...
Originally printed in 2013 in an edition of 250, the book has been out of print for two years. This new edition is released to coincide with Clark’s major solo...
Rising from London’s Erith marshes in the 1960s, Thamesmead was London County Council’s bold attempt to build a new town to address the city’s housing shortage after the Second World...
Some Los Angeles Apartments is a remake of the original book by the American artist Ed Ruscha, published in 1965. In Jóhannsson’s version, which is as deprived of people as...
Splitting consists of found photographs which document the illegal destruction of a building lying on a disputed property line in a residential area south-west of Oslo. Two workers were hired...
Nowhere in Cycladic culture has love been defined in a singular all-encompassing manner. Forces of attraction, affection, connection, and relation were ascribed in a plurality of ways. Through symposia in...
Epidemics and pandemics undermine societies and highlight the vulnerability of relations people have created to the land, other species, and each other. This book presents fragments of disease management in...
What would be of contemporary culture if we did not recognize the impact of migration in cultural and socio-economic crossings? This book explores human migration in different times, contexts, and...
Today, many feel fettered by insomnia, untouchability, and restrictions on movement. Looking for a more holistic approach to bodily and mental health, this book explores architectures and elementary forms of...
What does it mean to drill deep and interfere with the configuration of tectonic plates? What does it mean to hollow out and alienate islandic undergrounds? How is wealth extracted...
Aggressively rebounding after recessions and the pandemic, sprawling landscapes of tourism in the Mediterranean continue to build upon the iconic spatial typology of sea & sun vacationing: the beach. But...
The lines that divide us are the spaces we share. Driveways, paths, entrances and walls. These are the boundaries that separate our homes, but also the in between areas we...
At last the mighty task is done;Resplendent in the western sun These are the first lines of a poem by Joseph B. Strauss, Chief Engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge....
A Certain Logic of Expectations proposes a counter-narrative of the British city of Oxford that resists the visual imperatives of its ancient university. For the past five years, Mexican photographer...
Hibernation is a well known phenomenon in the natural world: a seasonal state of minimal activity, as an adaptation to winter conditions. But also man-made places can enter this dormant state...
In a series of black and white images, Falling Water captures dam infrastructure across Japan and the USA. Toshio Shibata was born in Japan in 1949. His work is included...
HappySad Souvenirs is a series of photographs taken in 2018 and 2019 during Hiller’s travels through China, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and Vietnam. Paul Hiller, born in 1984 in Germany,...
On 19.9.17, an earthquake measuring 7.1 occurred near Mexico City. A number of buildings in the capital were destroyed and at least 200 fatalities have been reported to date. Remarkably,...
My Dreamhouse is not a House is a long-term project by Julia Gaisbacher that focuses on the Austrian architect Eilfried Huth and one of the first, publicly funded participatory social...
Sand. The Transformation of Berlin is a unique documentary project about a city in transition. Many of the few remaining inner-city wastelands and temporarily used spaces that were characteristic of...
Following the example of French and British railway companies, C.P. (Portuguese Railways) built houses and social facilities between 1910-20, to support its employees and their families. Key projects implemented during...
The recurrent devastating typhoons in the province "Visayas" have dramatically influenced the dreams of local inhabitants for new homes. Rather than envisioning mere beauty and comfort, they long for structures...
This second investigation in the Street Report publication series looks at the Sungei Road Thieves Market in Singapore, a place where an informal and fluid network of market vendors come...
Atelier HOKO’s encounters with public bins reveal how unexpected or “improper” use or interactions, no matter how minor, are rich areas for study and observation, sometimes humorously so. This well...
Auditing Intimacy catalogues the last five years of O.J.A.I.'s postcard correspondence. In addition to over 80 images, the publication contains a specially commissioned essay by curator Alicja Melzacka dealing with self-institutionalization -...
The photographs in Martin Eberle's book "Hi Schatz!" were taken between 1997 and 2009. They document Berlin exactly as it actually was back then – beyond all official projections: unfinished,...
Peter Granser's photo series shows selected buildings by the Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre in El Alto, Bolivia. The 42-year-old Mamani calls his style "new Andean architecture". The shapes and colors are...
It is almost impossible to separate the ascendance of Modernism from the rise of the machine. In the long history of humanity, machines are a relatively new part of our...
In this issue, The Modernist are looking at all things grand, large, colossal and epic; literally, metaphorically and otherwise. John Grindrod celebrates the much maligned Millennium Dome. While its initial ambition...
For Pompei, Pompeii Swiss artist Bianca Pedrina carefully inspects the relationship between form and function in a newly implemented accessibility project in Pompeii. The project consists of iron elements embedded...
Ankommen is a study of architectural infrastructure for state-provided accommodation for refugees in Germany. During the so called European migrant crisis from 2015 on Germany got known for its 'welcome...
'Serge Najjar writes with lines and plays with shadows. [...] For me, some images evoke the utopia of the architects of the Enlightenment era, who had dreamt of them but...
Together! The New Architecture of the Collective presents an overview of contemporary collective housing projects from contexts as different as Europe, Asia, and the United States. The exhibition catalogue traces...
Roseanne Lynch had an 18 month residency at the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau in 2018 and 2019. She immersed herself there in the sites of the Bauhaus and its Materials Research...
Following on the widely read The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, which explored how museums are changing through conversations with today’s generation of museum directors, New York-based author and...
Hold That Thought is a walk through the work of visual artist Johannes Langkamp. This book is a reflection of an archive with (digital) works of art, experiments, (kinetic) models...
Idealism and imagination, dreams and reality, all come into play when we consider glass: from an elemental, ritual and decorative material of mysterious origins, to functional, technological, mass-produced commodity. Remaking...
For thousands of years, architects have used models to invent, experiment and communicate. A world in miniature, such models are even more varied in their purposes and materials than their...
In this collection of idiosyncratic lessons, architect and teacher Pier Paolo Tamburelli engages with the very foundations of architecture, proposing a series of new and open-ended perspectives on how we...
Site Report is a collection of poetry in prose, verse and screenplay, where windows are a lot more than panes of glass, tables have minds of their own and sinks...
Since the global financial crisis of 2008, which was triggered by a real estate crisis, there is a renewed search for alternative forms of housing production that escape speculative interests...
The local authority, the borough council, was the furthest away from central government, but many of its officers were fiercely proud of their municipality and their role in shaping its...
The Air from Other Planets introduces an architecture built and controlled by amplifying and designing the energy within our electromagnetic, thermodynamic, acoustic, and chemical environment. This approach to design exchanges...
Opencast coal mining has led to the destruction of hundreds of German villages over the last century. Although Germany has promised to phase out coal by 2038, extraction continues and...
Videogame Atlas presents a journey through twelve well-known videogame worlds via panoramic maps, intricate exploded diagrams and detailed illustrations. The book offers a playful new way of seeing these beloved...
Bungalow Bliss, first published in 1971, was a book of house designs that buyers could use to build a home for themselves affordably. It first appeared two years before Ireland...
‘Our current modus operandi can’t support the kinds of futures we envision for ourselves and those to come. As architects, builders, and citizens, we must urgently rethink our relationship to...
Through a collection of essays by selected scholars and practitioners, this volume explores the ways in which digital technology has deeply influenced how one produces interacts with, and consumes narratives...
A limited edition monthly wall calendar to celebrate of some of the most awe-inspiring and influential examples of Brutalist architecture around the world. Printed by one of Europe’s most environmentally progressive...
What role does storytelling play in urban imaginaries? How do these imaginaries converge or diverge from reality? Can we use stories to test ideas for future architecture? Concrete & Ink:...
Nine essays on home, identity, and ruins. Writers, artists, curators, and researchers discuss homelessness and war, utopias of free movement, reconstructing cities and their histories, and the ethics of art....
Inspired by the recent tendency among architects and designers to opt out of traditional office work in favour of creating self-initiated interventions in public space,‘Co-machines’ maps out a new architectural movement motivated...
Guided by the purpose of wellbeing, the essence of Norm Architects’ style is balance: richness focused by restraint, simplicity imbued with warmth, complexity heightened by order. Be it architecture, interiors,...
An independent bookshop in Glasgow. An ice cream parlour in Havana, where strawberry is the queerest choice. A cathedral in ruins in Managua, occupied by the underground LGBTQIA+ community. Queer...
Originally from Chicago, Ryan W. Kennihan has been working in Dublin since 2007 and has taught at various universities. His architecture is reserved, peaceful and elegant. Each building is a...
Through its analysis of a series of collaborations between architects and photographers, Epics in the Everyday proposes an alternative history of both modern architecture and documentary photography. It traces the...
50I50 Words is a compilation of the dialects of reuse. Its proposition is that an obsolete entity is not only a site of depredation, it is a condition for mediation:...
Newcastle, Endless is a collection of lyrics and lyrical reflections upon the endlessly embroiled landscape of the city: it reveals a poetic landscape infused with the effects of topography and...
Architects are a controversial bunch. Each new theory is heralded by a slogan that advertises its difference from what went before, piling complexity upon confusion. In this collection of very...
Groundwork, a major new book by Sydney-based artist Bianca Hester, finds its footing in the volcanic terrain of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (Aotearoa New Zealand). An expanded sculptural project that grew...
Every regional city and town has basic amenities of some description. A post office, a school, a town hall, a police station, and sometimes, a swimming pool. Across the Australian...
The current ecological crisis will transform the face and fate of cities. Neighbourhoods for the Future is based on the conviction that we should rethink cities from the ambit of...
Foreign Exchange: Conversations on Architecture Here and Now presents new nine new essays that respond to the online conversation series, which took place during one of the most turbulent periods...
Ringforts are Ireland’s most common archaeological monument, liberally spread throughout the countryside. Seen as circular enclosures in the rural landscape and many existent for hundreds and thousands of years, they...
The ‘political voice’ is the subject of the second volume of Sonic Urbanism publications. This volume explores the political voice as a particular sonic phenomenon, asking how and where it...
Following Theatrum Mundi's first colloquium, Crafting a Sonic Urbanism, which took place at the MSH Paris Nord in September 2018, resulted in a brand new publication on Sonic Urbanism. Edited by &beyond, it invites participants...
In this edition, contributors listen to the cacophony of human noise to hear the voices of non-human agents. From parrots and pigeons to crystals and electrical substations, the complex depth...
A domain of reflection, a zone of imagination, a sphere of cosmic reverie, a field of observation, an empire of fleeting thoughts, a territory of contemplation, a province of desires,...
Rights of Way, the body as witness in public space takes our bodily movements as a departure point to cross into the terrains of art, culture, architecture, sociology, literature, and...
Architectural Logos contains a wonderful selection of logos, trademarks and symbols from around the world formed of architectural elements such as houses, buildings, windows, stairs and doors. Published by Counter...
Anime has been influencing cinema, literature, comic books, and video games around the world for decades. Part of what makes anime so popular are the memorable and breathtakingly detailed worlds...
Making Space is a pioneering work first published in 1984 which challenges us to look at how the built environment impacts on women’s lives. It exposes the sexist assumptions on...
A Special Area of ConVersation is a publication resulting from an artist residency sited on the Fingal Coast in Co. Dublin in 2019. The residency was part of 'An Urgent Inquiry'...
Drawing from the nearly half a million photographs and documents comprising the Historic American Buildings Survey held in the US Library of Congress, this book constructs a fictional ‘one-way road...
This one-stop handbook for architecture students provides step-by-step techniques for perfecting the vital skills of drawing, model making and surveying. It is a primer on the conventions of architectural representation...
With a Foreword by Dermot Bannon and an introductory essay by the architect Jonathan Sergison, The Dublin Architecture Guide is a companion guide to the modern architecture of Dublin. With...
This is a zine based on Matthew Stickland's project 'offensive architecture' focusing on a style of architecture known as 'defensive' or 'hostile'. This form of architecture is incorporated into a...
When first published in 1970, The Uses of Disorder was a call to arms against the deadening hand of modernist urban planning upon the thriving chaotic city. Written in the...
This is Our Place: A Survey of Dalymount Park the Home of Irish Football contains 29 drawings from the map of Dalymount Park along with three commissioned essays: Dr Margarita...
Meeting Grounds is an artistic project that seeks to explore the formation of community and our changing perceptions towards publicness through the medium of public space. The project grew in resonance...
Winner of the Photobook Week Aarhus Dummy Award 2018. Stijn van der Linden's photobook is an exploration of how spaces become spaces and how photography can influence this process, presenting...
As our everyday lives become increasingly entangled with data technologies, the book addresses the utopian fantasy that surrounds the Cloud, as transcending physical presence or resourcing. By bringing the physical...
Leopold’s Legacy is a reflection on both the visible representations of colonialism in present-day Belgium, and the hidden traces of its gruesome past. Oliver Leu (DE) presents an eclectic collection...
Pavilion Books’ Lost series traditionally looks at the cherished places of a city that time, progress and fashion have swept aside. However, using the new expanded 176-page format of the...
Explores different perspectives on the value of architecture Looks at inherent cultural and historical value and how to link to economic value Sparks the discussion on heritage with new content...
The House of Common Affairs (HOCA) is a new, smashing journal about the Fourth Estate Utopias. It provides an opportunity to challenge the niche and yet popular field that exists...
Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world. We live in the city of men. Our public spaces...
Planners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life and character are sapped from our cities. What is...
As a complex urban system, the city constantly seeks balance. The rise of new ways to co-create or experience cities is breaking down traditional urban planning dichotomies. Interactive maps, mixed...
It is the seemingly peripheral details and gestures that come to anchor this collection of images. Like the building they document, these photographs of the Drawing Matter Archive at the working Shatwell...
An Atlas of Agenda's is a political, social and economic atlas: informing the public about socio-political power structures and activating opportunities for the self and the commons. The French research...
Inconclusive Evidence: Spatial Gender Politics at Strawberry Hill 1747-58 is a semiotic study of letters, drawings, sketches and paintings related to Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Middlesex, one of the most...
The work presented in this book is an invitation to undertake an urgent architectural and political thought experiment: to rethink today’s struggles for justice and equality not only from the...
This artist book brings together 44 photographs showing famous architects together with their architecture models. The images are arranged according to the position of the model and the height of...
