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Past Exhibitions

Listed below are past exhibitions which have been held in the IAA.

2024

Best Laid Plans: an exhibition by visual artist Mandy O’Neill

The Charm of K-Art

Neighbours in Space and Time: Grafton Architects at Sir John Soane’s Museum

The FNCI at 100

Chemins de migration

2023

The Coiffured

Little Republics

Remaking the Crust of the Earth

The Architecture of al-Andalus: Photographs by Michael Barry

Stirling Wilford and Associates, 1980-2000

Buildings End: An Ultimology Drafting Room

Architectural Presidents

2022

11 x 5 Cities: Paintings by John Stack

Pioneers and Visionaries: Drawings from the Golden Age of Irish Railways

Burning the Big House

The Ulysses Project: Drawings by Freddie Phillipson

Public Record Office of Ireland: The Story of a Building

A House with Three Lives: the Architecture of Leinster House

Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless: Ideas, Faces and Places – Robert Maxwell and Celia Scott

The Irish Aesthete: Ten Years in the Making

2021

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, no new IAA exhibitions were presented in 2021.

2020

Drawings by Jeremy Williams

Samburu Stories: Communicating Architecture in a Climate Emergency

Alternative Histories

Malton’s Dublin

2019

Emo Court

Labourers’ Cottages of Co. Wexford

A Visual Window to an Ecclesiastical World

Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth

Taoiseach’s Residence and State Guesthouse Architecture Competition

2018

Memorialising the Sacred: sound and architecture defining the landscape

Pugin Revisited

Townscape – Portraits of homes in Stradbally, Co. Laois, by Mary Burke

Architecture and the Pattern Book

Piccole Utopie

2017

Yellow Star Houses of Budapest: Photographs by Nigel Swann

Buildings of the Irish Town and Countryside: drawings by Maura Shaffrey

Czech Architectural Cubism 1911-1914

From Box to Anti-Box: the Berkeley Library at 50

2016

Ebb and Flow of East Belfast: Etchings by Bronagh Lawson

Atrium: Pinhole photographs by Harry Moore

House and Home: The Irish Architectural Archive’s 40th Anniversary Exhibition

Diagramming the Archive

Capstones Shift: architectural legacies of the revolutionary period in Dublin

After Easter: Photographs of Dublin by Thomas Johnson Westropp

Fragments. Architectural photographs by Ester Havlová

2015

US Embassy at 50

The Ulster Museum: Evolution amidst Revolution

Stations of Indifference

A Sense of Place

St Patrick’s Cathedral: an architectural exhibition

Thomas Joseph Byrne: Nation Builder

Who was James Franklin Fuller?

2014

From Classical to Curious: An exhibition of drawings from the Irish Architectural Archive’s Guinness Collection

Dublin Shops: Photographs by Paul Tierney

The GPO – Two Hundred Years

Parnell Square in Photographs

2013

Marks of Time: The Buildings of Derry~Londonderry by Manus Deery

Berlin Palace – Humboldt Forum Exhibition

Restless Pencil: architectural drawings, photographs and works on paper marking the centenary of the birth Noel Moffett

Raymond McGrath: Modern Master

High Shelves and Long Counters: Stories and photographs of Irish shops by Winifred McNulty and Heike Thiele

Baroque in Italy

2012

Merrion Square 250: An exhibition of drawings from the National Archives of Ireland

Celebrating Pugin

Thomas Ryan – Dublin and Thereabouts

2011

Shackleton Mill: Photographs by Tim Durham

Pier Luigi Nervi: Project and Structure

Converging Territories: Dublin Shadowlands

Dublin Flats: photographs of Dublin social housing by Willem Heeffer

2010

Ancestral Interiors: Photographs by Patrick Prendergast

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

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