Startha Éagsula / Alternative Histories
Sarah Handelman (Editor)
Drawing Matter/Irish Architectural Archive, 2020

Paperback | 6-1/4 x 9-1/2 inches | 64 pages | English (foreword also in Gaelic) | ISBN: 978-1916152212 | £14.00

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
First presented in London in 2019, Alternative Histories invited 85 practices in the UK and Europe to respond to archival drawings held in the collection of Drawing Matter with models of their own. For the occasion of the show?s presentation at the Irish Architectural Archive in Dublin, the curators invited nine additional Irish or Irish-based architectural practices to join the original five. This catalogue brings together the voices and processes of these 14 participants, providing an opportunity to reflect and to consider contemporary Irish architecture in contexts at once European and historical. dDAB COMMENTARY:
The last of the three legs of the traveling exhibition Alternative Histories opened on December 3rd at the Irish Architectural Archive, a couple months later than planned due to COVID-19. The exhibition, curated by architects Jantje Engels and Marius Grootveld from Ghent, solicited 85 architects to build models that responded to drawings from the archive of Drawing Matter, based in Somerset, England. The old drawings and new models were documented in the impressive large-format catalog that I reviewed back in November. Marking the exhibition's conclusion is a special supplementary catalog, Startha Éa...