Drawing can be accompanied by a range of related material including correspondence, planning, client and contractor files, bills of quantities and specifications, site meeting minutes, photographs, and financial documentation.
Drawings acquisitions range for single items to sets of drawings for an individual building to the complete drawings archive of an architectural practice. Drawing can be accompanied by a range of related material including correspondence, planning, client and contractor files, bills of quantities and specifications, site meeting minutes, photographs, and financial documentation.
The earliest drawings in the Archive’s collections are designs of the 1690s for a magazine in St. John’s Castle, Limerick, and the collection include drawings in every kind of medium used by architects over the past 400 years. In addition, the Archive houses over 90 architectural models.