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T. Weaver

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The Thing Itself

AA Files and the Fates of Architectural Theory

The Thing Itself: AA Files and the Fates of Architectural Theory explores architecture’s relationship with its editing. This is ostensibly discussed through the lens of a particular architectural journal, AA Files (part of a long tradition of journals produced by the Architectura ...

Contributed

Form and Uniform

The Architecture of Irish Police

This project deals with the architecture of order. It is at its core an exploration of how design is used to provide a powerful and coherent image of the state through the representation of the most fundamental and controversial of institutions: police.
The police station is ...
An archive is everything but definitive. It is the nature of every living collection and such a collection is a city as well. The project is an archive holding a collection of lost, disappeared or forgotten in the former centre of the textile industry in Brno. It is composed of p ...

Finding Hy-Brasil

The Gateway Between Reality And Unreality

Through Irish history, different spiritual demands in specific historical moments impacts on the legends of Hy-Brasil. In turn, the stories of Hy-Brasil reflects the history of Ireland through its possible position, appearances, items events, viewpoints gateways and monuments. Th ...

The Farmacy

A new small scale pharmaceutical production site

This project explores the realities of production in the Irish landscape, and speculates upon certain industries that maintain both a rural economy and Ireland’s architectural identity. The essence of this project as the name suggest, is to combine two residual industries in Irel ...

Grand Motel

And other luxuries of a scenic Irish journey

Using the value of scenic landscape of the West coast of Ireland, the project proposes a construction of the new type of territorial tourism, called the Grand Motel. The Grand Motel explores the idea of luxury. It does so through the XIX century Grand Hotel- type and the grandeur ...

The Seven Houses of Man

Narrating the Story of Irish Housing from the Mid-Nineteenth Century Onwards

By considering the forces and events that cause individuals and families to move from one household to the next, between the city and the country, between one country and another, this project examines housing in Ireland, seeking to understand how these events feed back into the ...
The bicycle tour, more than any other sporting event, is fundamentally dependent on the landscape. The landscape has been used not only to challenge the peloton physically but also as a visual background for the event that has been broadcast worldwide. Tour of Ireland was first o ...