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This is an exciting opportunity for experienced Open House Dublin volunteers to volunteer with partner festivals in Brno, Lisbon, and Milan on 13-14 May.

In 2019, the IAF curated The Architect Reads, a series of readings as performances by authors who have studied architecture. In this performance, Kester Rattenbury reads from her book The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy Architect and Josephine Marsh, Mick Kinsella, Cyril O’Donoghue and Steve Larkin play traditional music collected by Thomas Hardy.

Playback now available of this one-day festival exploring extraordinary housing all over the world, including our session with Open House Oslo on innovative housing for the elderly

It's Open House Dublin 2021 this weekend (15-17 October) - the IAF's showcase festival of architecture in the capital city!

Architecture Kerry celebrates Kerry’s architectural heritage. This weekend festival features talks, guided tours and exhibitions to showcase the extraordinary built environment on offer in Kerry and is open to people of all ages.

'Open the door to heritage' was the call from the Heritage Council at this year's launch of National Heritage Week 2021.

In collaboration with the London Festival of Architecture, Irish Architecture Foundation will host a live, virtual panel discussion entitled Together We Care About Public Spaces.

Site Specific and We Built This City series to be included in festival content

The Irish Architecture Foundation are delighted to host an exciting series of performances by ANU at our headquarters on Bachelor’s Walk, as part of this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival.

Open House Dublin is set to take place this year on the weekend of the 8 -11 October.

Today the #OpenHouseDublin website goes live and the full programme is available to view from 7pm

Open House Dublin 2019 will run from 11–13 October.

Our free annual celebration of the Dublin’s best architecture returns on 11—13 October 2019.

The IAF brings you ‘The Architect Reads’ as part of International Literature Festival Dublin

2018 marks the 13th OPEN HOUSE DUBLIN, Ireland’s largest architecture festival, taking place from Friday 12 to Sunday 14 October 2018.

This year's Open House Dublin saw over 33,000 visits to more than 150 events!

We wanna know your highlights and how we can improve the festival in the future!

Open House Dublin is almost upon us and it's time to announce the OHD Photo Competition!

IAF Membership gets you closer to the action at Open House Dublin and all year round...

In 2010, six cities joined Open House Worldwide. Today, 36 cities around the world have adopted the unique but simple concept of Open House, with the ‘family’ set to grow to 50 cities over the next few years!

We have announced all 150+ events as part of Open House Dublin 2017: start planning your weekend now...

Put the dates in your diary and block out the weekend of 29th September - 1st October for Green-Door 2017.

We've announced the theme of the 12th OHD 2017

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, curators of the International Architecture Biennale at Venice, have announced the 2018 theme.

Aaaaaannnnnnddd the winner is......

We wanna know what your highlights and what we can improve moving forward.

Calling all architecture and photography enthusiasts!

This is the 11th edition of Open House Dublin and doesn’t time fly.....

The IAF have joined forces with Airbnb to shine a spotlight on great Dublin Architecture for Open House Dublin 2016, a FREE, annual architectural celebration, taking place from Friday 14 to Sunday 16 October this year.