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Join us at IAF House for the full season of Books Downstairs.

Experts share insights on Irish Housing Histories, Housing Now, and Housing Futures in this series of recorded discussions.

The IAF is delighted to confirm the line-up for our 2023 New Now Next talks series, featuring leading international speakers from architecture, art and design, and supported by Arup.

Two pioneering UK architects discuss Disability, Space, Architecture.

What systems, infrastructure, and actions are needed to make deconstruction and reuse as common as building with new material?

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

Two pioneering UK architects introduce disability-led design in our second New Now Next talk of the season.

We are thrilled to welcome Maarten Gielen to Dublin to open our 10th anniversary New Now Next series!

Maarten Gielen, Jos Boys and Emmanuel Pratt to headline 10 years of New Now Next, supported by Arup

Watch the recording of the New Now Next 2021 talk by Eyal Weizman, moderated by Shumon Basar.

Watch the recording of the New Now Next 2021 finale with Lacaton & Vassal

2021 Pritzker Prize-winning architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal discuss their work with 2020 Pritzker laureates Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara

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

This edition of Reimagine Sessions, entitled 'Bring Back Main Street' focuses on the centre of towns, areas that currently face major challenges as we undergo a shift in how we shop, work, travel and live.

Watch our recording of the first New Now Next talk of 2021 with Kate Orff and Ed Wall.

The founding director of Forensic Architecture will be in conversation with Shumon Basar on 9 September 2021.

Seminar recordings now available to watch online

Valerie Mulvin and Ruth O’Herlihy in interview with Carole Pollard on Thapar University, India

Exploring the impact of minimal home sizes and housing policies on the lives of communities and artists.

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.

Greening Interventions in Public Space

Ninth series of New Now Next talks to feature prestigious Pritzker Prize winners

Recordings now available for SO-IL, Akihisa Hirata and Toni L. Griffin.

Our inspirational talks series returns with an exciting line up of international architects and urban designers.

Hosted conversation in Loughrea and public consultation in Letterkenny on evening of Friday 18 September

This webinar is being held to mark the launch of The Urban Everyday: Design and Material Culture of Dublin 7, an online project by MA Design History and Material Culture and MA Service Design Students at the National College of Art and Design in partnership with the National Museum of Ireland.

The inaugural IAF International Summer School, as part of Project 20x20 – Respond, is now on!

As part of Project 20x20 - Profile we are delighted to highlight our archive of NewNowNext material from the past seven years, as part of our long-running partnership with Arup.

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

Four creative thinkers with different perspectives and priorities discuss ideas around occupation, inspired by Peter Maybury's Landfall.
Our Director Nathalie Weadick, Architect Emmett Scanlon and Senator Lynn Ruane join Peter for this free public talk produced by THISISPOPBABY.

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, founders and directors of Grafton Architects and winners of the 2020 RIBA Royal Gold Medal, awarded for significant influence on the advancement of architecture, will present their Gold Medal Lecture in London on the 12th February 2020.

2017 NewNowNext | Winy Maas

2018 NewNowNext | Erion Veliaj

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

The IAF is proud to announce its 2019 ‘A’ list line-up for New Now Next!

The Irish Georgian Society are celebrating the completion of the City Assembly House conservation project with a public exhibition and a series of talks and tours for the public to engage with this summer.

UCD Architecture students have been exploring gender and architecture through events, conversations, readings and an upcoming exhibition

The Irish branch of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings holds its AGM on 17 May and elects a new committee

Standard Lives was a series of talks celebrating the ignored and overlooked side of Irish architecture and design.

New Now Next, the popular architecture talk series launches its fifth edition this March.

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

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

Anne Bedos is a social entrepreneur known for cycling and community development in Ireland. Originally from France, Bedos moved to Ireland in 2004 and founded Rothar in 2008.

Get yer mates over from Ireland! 

Naoise Nunn was living in Belfast, working odd jobs after finishing a politics degree before doing a “little bit of work” on Sky Cat Laughs comedy festival in 1996.

Meet Steve Larkin, Dublin based architect and musician playing trad fiddle.

A design agency with their finger in all of the creative pies: architecture, furniture, exhibition making and photography.

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.

Douglas Carson is co-founder of Carson and Crushell Architects which he runs with his wife Rosaleen Crushell who began their collaboration in 2003.

Independent curators Rosie Lynch and Hollie Kearns are based at Callan Workhouse Union, Co. Kilkenny.

Emmet Condon is Creative Director of Homebeat, a music promotion and production outfit with a particular interest in non traditional spaces. Homebeat started off as gigs in your living room.

Win a Trip from Dublin to London for someone from Home!

Manchán Magan is a writer, traveller and television maker. He has made over 30 travel documentaries focusing on issues of world culture and globalization.

Meet the founders of the Dublin based architecture practice TAKA.

Two groups of Irish architects travelled to six prestigious U.S venues this Autumn, where they participated in symposia, presenting key aspects of their work and engaging in discussion on critical issues facing Irish Architecture Now.