Dublin : Creation, Occupation, Destruction by Niall McCullough (Hardback)

Description Niall McCullough died on 20 August 2021, before he could see his Printing House building in Trinity College fully completed, and before he could finish his latest book – Dublin: Creation, Occupation, Destruction. His startling freshness and originality of thinking about buildings and spaces offer a way to sustainably use our cities and our landscapes, bringing to bear the weight and depth of close observation, deep historical knowledge, and sheer imagination, to create conditions for an intervention into an existing building, or to make a new building within a context. At a time when it has never been more relevant to question how we should build, and where the answer may sometimes be not to build at all, but to repurpose, Niall’s approach to architecture and the environment puts an urgent value on the actual fabric of our historic cities, asking us to read beyond immediate appearances to ensure we carry this fragile construct with us into the future. ISBN 9780951536483 Niall McCullough died on 20 August 2021, before he could see his Printing House building in Trinity College fully completed, and before he could finish his latest book – Dublin: Creation, Occupation, Destruction. His startling freshness and originality of thinking about buildings and spaces offer a way to sustainably use our cities and our landscapes, bringing to bear the weight and depth of close observation, deep historical knowledge, and sheer imagination, to create conditions for an intervention into an existing building, or to make a new building within a context. At a time when it has never been more relevant to question how we should build, and where the answer may sometimes be not to build at all, but to repurpose, Niall’s approach to architecture and the environment puts an urgent value on the actual fabric of our historic cities, asking us to read beyond immediate appearances to ensure we carry this fragile construct with us into the future. ISBN 9780951536483