Architecture & Engineering

This book is the first in depth analysis of Dublin's upper middle-class homes. Using measured surveys, photographs, and contemporary drawings and maps, it analyses a range of premium houses in three different districts: Ballsbridge, Rathgar and Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire).

An important and fascinating collection of original projects by unique thinkers in the world of architecture and spatial design

Making, maintaining and mending our own homes is part of what makes us human. It is a skill that was alive and well until just two or three generations ago. Harrison Gardner is a man on a mission to help us rediscover the lost art of building our own while leaving a more harmonious mark on the environment.

Making Journeys explores new avenues of approach to the movement of people and ideas in the past through detailed examination of the biographies of artefacts, from their origins to their places and contexts (physical and social) of deposition.

The pocket-sized visual guide to the great buildings and structures of the modern age from around the world by an architecture expert.

A classic work on the joy of experiencing architecture, with a new afterword reflecting on architecture's place in the contemporary moment

A one-stop handbook for architecture students. First edition was 2015. Authors are architects. They both teach at the Dublin School of Architecture, Technological University Dublin.

This is a fresh and original account of the most telling era in Dublin's development. Diarmuid O Grada depicts the Georgian city as a place of conflict where sharp divisions arose between the haves and have-nots. His work reveals the causes of this upheaval and its impact on ordinary Dubliners.

"Another masterpiece" (BoingBoing), by Theodore Gray, How Things Work explores the inner workings of machines, big and small, revealing the extraordinary science, beauty, and rich history of everyday things.