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Welcome to the Ireland Architecture Diary, your essential guide to all architecture and design events taking place across the island.
Exhibitions
21 February - 03 May
Butler Gallery
Butler Gallery is pleased to present I Took a Hammer in My Hand, a new installation of photographic works and…
Talks & Debates Free
Thu 30 April : 18:00
The Office of Public Works (OPW), in partnership with the National Library of Ireland (NLI)
The Office of Public Works (OPW), in partnership with the National Library of Ireland (NLI), presents Conversation Club This Continuing…
Sat 25 April : 14:00 -16:00
Pauline O'Connell/Emma Gilleece/Padmore & Barnes
Join architectural historian Emma Gilleece for her presentation ‘Form, Function and Footwear: State Ambition and the Industrial Modernism of Kilkenny’,…
Talks & Debates Free Online
Thu 23 April : 13:00 -14:00
UCD Centre for Irish Towns
UCD Centre for Irish Towns - Talking Towns Webinar 25 This session will focus on the importance of having accurate…
Exhibitions Free
22 January - 10 April
Irish Architectural Archive
Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czechia, was designed for Greta and Fritz Tugendhat in 1929–1930. The architect was the German Ludwig…
Festivals Talks & Debates
Wed 15 April : 14:00
RDS - Finding Common Ground Festival
Ireland’s rural landscapes are shaped by heritage buildings that carry deep cultural, architectural and historic value. The question is not…
Thu 23 April : 18:00
Other Events Online
13 April - 19 April
Simon Communities of Ireland (SCI) and the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI).
About RIAI Simon Open Door The RIAI Simon Open Door initiative is a collaboration between the Simon Communities of Ireland…
Wed 29 April : 18:00 -20:00
UCD Landscape Architecture
What will Dublin look like in 2050? The UCD Landscape Architecture invites you to our students 2025/2026 End of Year…
Workshops Exhibitions Talks & Debates Walks & Tours Other Events
01 May - 07 May
Blick Shared Studios & Karishma’s World
Belfast Design Week is an annual multidisciplinary design festival celebrating design in Northern Ireland and beyond. We began BDW in…
Talks & Debates
Fri 01 May : 09:00 -17:00
This event brings together leading voices from architecture, heritage, cultural geography and the arts to ask: what would our small…
Other Events
Sat 02 May : 12:00 -16:00
Graft Collective
A live exhibition where artists, designers, and makers present and install works in progress, including unfinished pieces and experiments. “Work…
Tue 19 May : 20:00 -21:00
Irish Architecture Foundation
Throughout LGBTQ+ history, suburbia was somewhere to escape from: a place where heterosexuality ruled, difference was not tolerated, and you’d…
24 February - 23 May
Garter Lane
Outlandish is a meditation on the role of nature in the built environment. The artist looks closely at his immediate…
03 March - 26 May
Irish Georgian Society
The Irish Georgian Society and Dublin City Council have assembled a team of conservation experts to present a series of…
Conferences
Thu 03 September : 08:30 -16:00
The Royal Society of Ulster Architects
The architecture of our homes is fundamental to how we live. Do it well, we thrive. Do it poorly, we…
31 March - 30 April
Kenny Gallery, Kennys Bookshop, Galway
RUNNING THROUGHOUT APRIL AT THE KENNY GALLERY Step into history and visit this exhibition of over 40 aerial photographs of…
31 January - 10 May
VISUAL Carlow
Anne Hardy’s first exhibition in Ireland comprises a series of figurative sculptures that reflect various states of being; physical, emotional,…
27 March - 10 May
Gerard Byrne Gallery
Officially launched by art historian, researcher and author, Kathryn Milligan, Before I Go. Vanishing Dublin gathers fifty uniquely Dublin cityscapes…
11 May - 17 May
Dublin Local Authorities, the Dublin Climate Action Regional Office (CARO) and Codema
Dublin Climate Action Week will take place from the 11th - 17th of May 2026 and is organised by the…
16 April - 23 May
The LAB Gallery
In The Grid is Elva Mulchrone’s affective response to her Fulbright award and project in 2024/5, and the totality of…
07 April - 25 May
Íontas Theatre
Without Words is a body of work which starts out to memorialise wooden letterpress movable typeface developed in the 19th…
