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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 housing bodies, and his buildings, teaching, and writings represent an ongoing investigation of what home means, and how we can live in cities. With his team at Gerry Cahill Architects (GCA), and key collaborators such as Bernard Thompson of the National Association of Building Cooperatives and Sr Stanislaus Kennedy of the Focus Housing Association, Cahill provided thousands of high-quality homes, many of which were for vulnerable groups, had low budgets, and were on sites considered ‘undevelopable’. GCA also designed highly insulated, cheap-to-heat buildings and worked with existing structures long before either of those practices were commonplace. Cahill’s projects – even those from thirty, forty years ago – remain relevant to contemporary Ireland, with its deepening housing crisis, widespread dereliction, and rapidly changing physical identity. Through his teaching at UCD, Gerry Cahill influenced the work and lives of hundreds of architects practising in Ireland and elsewhere.
The work of GCA has, until now, been under-published. Through a combination of invited essays and GCA’s archival photographs, texts, and drawings, Care and consideration examines key GCA projects through a contemporary lens, recording their genesis, quality, and influence, and asking what lessons they can offer for today. Care and consideration is published by Type, a collective of editors with expertise across multiple spatial disciplines. We work together to commission, gather, and disseminate writing on the design of the built environment. Our mission is to share knowledge, increase accessibility, and support a culture of critique in the fields of architecture, landscape, urban design, and planning in Ireland. These goals are supported through our work online (www.type.ie) and in-person, publishing weekly articles, hosting a digital repository, engaging with audiences across multiple social media channels, and organising events.
Editors: Eimear Arthur and Michael K. Hayes
With contributions from: Gerry Cahill, Eddie Conroy, Antóin Doyle, Emily Jones, Merlo Kelly, Frank McDonald, Dr Ellen Rowley, Maggie Stephenson.
Designer: Peter Maybury
Published by Type
Softcover, Swiss bind, black cloth, sewn in
sections190 pages
180 x 276 mm
ISBN 9781068201103
