Architecture & Engineering

An illustrated history of the development of Dublin city through the last century. There is a particular focus on its role as Ireland's capital since independence 100 years ago, as well as on architectural planning. In association with the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI).

The latest instalment of the RIAI Annual Review series is now available. Now in its eight year, the Annual Review showcases the best of Irish architecture both home and abroad. The RIAI Annual Review series offers a wide-ranging view of Irish architecture, while exploring topical issues of our time through essays and interviews. Alongside these essays and interviews, the RIAI Annual Review features 18 award-winning buildings – from clever house extensions to magnificent restoration projects. The projects featured in this edition range from stunning architect-designed homes to public places where the entire community can come together, and from a finely-crafted school extension to pioneer research laboratories and innovative workplaces. For everyone with an interest in Irish architecture and design, the RIAI Annual Review makes essential reading. The RIAI Annual Review is funded by the Government Policy on Architecture.

"Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies" is the annual journal of the Irish Georgian Society. It is the much-enhanced and dramatically expanded successor to the Bulletin, which was published from 1958 to 1997. The journal reflects the Irish Georgian Society’s present wider remit, which is no longer concerned solely with Georgian architecture, but acknowledges the importance of the entire spectrum of Ireland’s post-medieval architecture and its special need for protection, interpretation, understanding and appreciation. The content of each volume of the journal is wide and varied, testimony to the diversity and scholarship of the series.

This annual publication is illustrated with monochrome and colour maps, plans, drawings and photographs of the buildings discussed. The articles cover a range of topics from 18th-century Ireland.

Hugh Pearman deftly guides us through the compelling stories of 55 buildings that explain our world, from antiquity to the present day

Peter Pearson's Decorative Dublin is a feast for the eye, celebrating the city's decorative surfaces in ironwork, brickwork, stone, glass, plaster, its fanlights, doors and windows...and more.