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Patrícia Coelho and Juri Velt have been selected for the IAF and dpr-barcelona LINA Writing Awards 2024.

The Trading Spaces exchange brought early career architects based in Sweden and Ireland together in Dublin and Stockholm to pool their knowledge about sustainable housing practices.

The Irish Architecture Foundation’s work with young people has been recognised by the Thornton Education Trust.

Published by the IAF and dpr-Barcelona, these two books will enrich the minds of all those interested in architecture, landscape, urbanism, and imagination.

Established in 2021, the IAF Graduate Panel offers a discursive and collaborative space to share ideas and an opportunity to link with the IAF’s core programme. We’d like to introduce you to our panelists over a series of interviews.

Established in 2021, the IAF Graduate Panel offers a discursive and collaborative space to share ideas and an opportunity to link with the IAF’s core programme. We’d like to introduce you to our panelists over a series of interviews.

Architects and architecture graduates, apply by 28 July to share your knowledge, skills and enthusiasm with TY students in a school near you.

Emerging writers can apply through the LINA Open Call for 1 of 2 grants for new architectural writing, with publication by dpr-barcelona and the IAF. Call closes 1 August.

Emerging professionals can apply through the LINA Open Call to lead participatory workshops at the IAF Summer School 2024. Call closes 1 August.

Established in 2021, the IAF Graduate Panel offers a discursive and collaborative space to share ideas and an opportunity to link with the IAF’s core programme. We’d like to introduce you to our panelists over a series of interviews.

Established in 2021, the IAF Graduate Panel offers a discursive and collaborative space to share ideas and an opportunity to link with the IAF’s core programme.

Established in 2021, the IAF Graduate Panel offers a discursive and collaborative space to share ideas and an opportunity to link with the IAF's core programme.

Established in 2021, the IAF Graduate Panel offers a discursive and collaborative space to share ideas and an opportunity to link with the IAF’s core programme.

Established in 2021, the IAF Graduate Panel offers a discursive and collaborative space to share ideas and an opportunity to link with the IAF’s core programme. We’d like to introduce you to our panelists over a series of interviews.

The IAF and the Housing Agency co-hosted two workshops for TY students during Housing Unlocked. Here's what the students proposed...

Transition Year students from 12 secondary schools will take part in the 10th annual Architects in Schools exhibition on 11 May.

Apply by Friday, 9 June 2023 to become part of a creative and engaging Transition Year programme about architecture, design and the built environment.

Emerging practices Space Saloon + The MAAK, zwkr, and Palace of Un/Learning headline this year’s IAF Summer School, part of the LINA programme.

Tom Cookson, Francesca Cocchiara and Sergios Strigklogiannis have been selected for the IAF and dpr-barcelona LINA Writing Award 2023.

Submit your abstract for the All-Ireland Architecture Research Group's 2023 conference by 12 January.

Emerging professionals can apply through LINA to lead or present at panels, workshops, and seminars at the IAF International Summer School 2023. Call closes 12 September.

Emerging professionals can apply for the architecture Writing Award run by the IAF and dpr-barcelona through the LINA call for projects, closing 12 September.

Established in 2021, the IAF Graduate Panel offers a discursive and collaborative space to share ideas and an opportunity to link with the IAF’s core programme. We’d like to introduce you to our panelists over a series of interviews.

LINA invites emerging architects and other creatives to share original ideas, projects, or practices to help make the European Green Deal a reality.

Hear directly from young people who participated in Architects in Schools 2021/22 in this short film.

Explore themes of data entanglement with ANNEX and friends at the IAF Summer School in Galway and online this July.

Established in 2021, the IAF Graduate Panel offers a discursive and collaborative space to share ideas and an opportunity to link with the IAF’s core programme. We’d like to introduce you to our panelists over a series of interviews.

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.

Established in 2021, the IAF Graduate Panel offers a discursive and collaborative space to share ideas and an opportunity to link with the IAF’s core programme. We’d like to introduce you to our panelists over a series of interviews.

Established in 2021, the IAF Graduate Panel offers a discursive and collaborative space to share ideas and an opportunity to link with the IAF's core programme. We'd like to introduce you to our panelists over a series of interviews.

The IAF is proud to join with 27 partners to support emerging architecture professionals through the LINA platform.

Seminar recordings now available to watch online

The Irish Architecture Foundation invites applications from recent architecture graduates and students of architecture for a place on the IAF Graduates panel

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.

The second International Summer School will take place in June on the theme of Architecture and Media.

A unique celebratory screening of 3 films by the late filmmaker, hosted by the IFI and IAF.

Applications now open for schools to take part in the 2021/22 cycle of Architects in Schools programme

An opportunity for teachers of all subject disciplines to engage in a series of online community of practice workshops with professional architects.

A series of online workshops with professional architects for teachers of all subject disciplines.

Applications for 2020/21 open until 14 August

In 2020 our Architects in Schools exhibition moved online as part of Project 20x20 - A Year Like No Other.

The Architects in Schools initiative for Transition Year students places architects and architectural graduates in schools across Ireland.

An introduction to architecture and the process of design for secondary students, presented as part of Project 20x20 - Respond.

The 2019 - 2020 cycle of the Architects in Schools initiative is now completed in 28 schools nationally.

Project 20x20 will help form a new overview of our relationship with architecture and with the communities that architecture serves.

Watch this year's NASI exhibition video here...

The IAF's Architects in Schools initiative will begin again in September 2019: apply for your school to take part by 31 May...

Projects are kicking off in 32 schools around the country as part of this year's National Architects in Schools Initiative

The RIAI has developed a programme of activity you can undertake as part of a Transition Year architecture work placement

David O’Brien from Comeragh College gives us an update of his experience so far of the National Architects in Schools programme.

We're thrilled to have the students of NCAD and UCD take over our auditorium for a special module.

After careful consideration and rigorous debate, a winning team for Public Age has been selected.

A huge congratulations to Joseph O'Donoghue for winning our first ever award for the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2017.

After careful consideration and rigorous debate, a winning team for Public Age has been selected. London-based design studio The Decorators and Irish artist Joe Coveney have been chosen to lead a project exploring public space and older people in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown in 2017.

The Housing Agency together with the HSE launched first of its kind design guidelines for those providing accommodation for people living with certain persistent mental health conditions.

The 21st edition of Building Material seeks papers on the theme of practice in architecture.

Building Material is an annual architecture journal, joint published by the Architectural Association of Ireland (AAI), the All-Ireland Architecture Research Group (AIARG), and the Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF).

Applications are welcomed from architects and architecture graduates interested in education and public outreach.

Did you miss Kunlé Adeyemi's inspiring ‪#‎NewNowNext‬ talk in November 2015? No probs, catch up now!

The wait is finally over...

With less than 48 hours to go until our Play Park Competition is judged, we couldn't be more excited to introduce to you our stellar line-up of Jurors

IAF are seeking applications from architects and architecture graduates interested in education and public outreach.

New Now Next is a series of public talks curated by the Irish Architecture Foundation in collaboration with Arup, revealing current and next generation ideas and architects from across the globe.

The IAF’s Architeks are specially designed architecture activity sheets for families, full of observation games, sketching and quizzes that take you along selected routes.

Robert Bourke Architects have been awarded First Prize in an open competition for an outdoor classroom and playground for Skerries Educate Together primary school in north County Dublin. Construction begins this Autumn.

We at the IAF are delighted to announce that Dublin-based printers Plus Print have won the prestigious Irish Small Printer of the Year Award at the Irish Print Awards 2011 for our recent A Space for Learning publication!

We kicked off its new education programme in late 2009 with A Space for Learning, a design competition to challenge current thinking on school design, where architects collaborate with the end-users of educational spaces - the students.