In chapter 5 of Books Downstairs, come and hear designers Peter Maybury, Colin Farmer and Noelle Cooper discuss designing books about architecture, in conversation with designer Emma Conway.

With decades of experience and hundreds of design projects between them, this panel is sure to provide a feast for the eyes and minds of those interested in what goes into the visual communication and creative exploration of architecture in (2D) books.

Peter Maybury is an Irish multidisciplinary artist who has collaborated extensively with artists and institutions, editors and curators on more than 200 art and architecture publications. Peter is a longstanding collaborator with Tom dePaor, making books, films, photographs, and works for exhibition. Their Gall Editions imprint has published 12 titles to date, including Irlanda: of de Blacam and Meagher (2010), part of their co-curation of the Irish Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Peter is author of Make Ready (2015) and co-author with dePaor of Of (2012) and Reservoir (2010). Peter is designer, contributing writer, and co-editor with Ciarán Nugent of Throw Away: Nightclub Flyers 1990-99 (2022). With Paul Clarke he co-edited the eight-volume Notations (2016), featuring work by dePaor, O’Donnell+Tuomey, and Grafton Architects; and with Dennis McNulty he co-curated and edited the Underground exhibition and book (2008).

Noelle Cooper, Colin Farmer and Philip Farmer are Unthink, a creative branding and digital studio in Dublin city. Unthink’s architecture book design credits include Valerie Mulvin’s Approximate Formality – Morphology of Irish Towns (2021), Niall McCullough’s Dublin – Creation, Occupation, Destruction (2023), and Housing Unlocked: Ideas from a Living Room (2023), for which they also designed the website and exhibition.

Read Peter Maybury, Noelle Cooper, Colin Farmer, and Emma Conway’s full bios below.

This is chapter 5 of Books Downstairs, a series of conversations on books about architecture, organised and hosted by the Irish Architecture Foundation.

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Image: Dublin – Creation, Occupation, Destruction (by Niall McCollough), courtesy of Unthink.