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House and Home Exhibition

26.10.16-30.04.17

Featuring over forty original architectural drawings, as well as publications, models and photographs, for residential projects in Ireland, House and Home marks the fortieth anniversary of the Irish Architectural Archive.

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House and Home Exhibition

45 Merrion Square East, D02 VY60, Ireland

26.10.16-30.04.17

Event Information

House and Home Exhibition

45 Merrion Square East, D02 VY60, Ireland

26.10.16-30.04.17

House and Home features over forty original architectural drawings, as well as publications, models and photographs, for residential projects in Ireland from the Irish Architectural Archive.

Included are proposals for thatched cottages, suburban semi-Ds, one-off bungalows, blocks of flats, country houses of varying sizes, and even a maison de plaisance. Reflecting the chronological spread of the Archive’s holdings, the works range in date from the mid-eighteenth century to the late twentieth. Some of these projects were built, others merely proposed. Of those that were built, some are extremely modest, others highly ambitious, even adventurous. Of the unbuilt, some are generic archetypes, others unrealisable fantasy. What all of these diverse designs have in common is that they are tangible demonstrations of architects exercising their architectural imaginations to tackle the question of how to provide quality homes for Irish people.