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Between Design and Making: Architecture and craftsmanship, 1630–1760Edited by Andrew Tierney and Melanie Hayes, foreword by Christine Casey, UCL Press, 2024. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries represent a high point in the collaborative engagement between design and workmanship. Building on the shift towards a collaborative and qualitative analysis of architectural production, Between Design and Making re-evaluates the social and professional fabric that binds design to making, and the asymmetry that has emerged between architecture and craft. Combining analysis of buildings, archival material and eighteenth-century writings, the authors draw out the professional, pedagogical and social links between architectural practice and workmanship, to argue for a process-oriented understanding of architectural production. Click for a free Open Access download
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PhD POSITION IN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORYApplicants are sought for a funded four-year PhD at Trinity College Dublin, commencing in September 2024, on a topic relating to the ERC advanced grant research project STONE-WORK, led by Professor Christine Casey in the Department of History of Art and Architecture. Click for more details
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All female reboot of Raphael`s `School of Athens` frescoAn art project depicting a full-scale re-enactment of Raphael`s famous School of Athens fresco with an all-women cast entitled the School of Hibernia has been devised by the art collective Na Cailleacha and staged in collaboration with Trinity`s History of Art and Architecture Department in Trinity`s Museum Building. Art history and drama students from Trinity assisted in the staging and production.
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Prof Christine Casey wins prestigious ERC Advanced GrantProfessor Christine Casey of Trinity`s School of Histories and Humanities has won a highly prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced grant valued at €2.5 million. The funding is for a five-year project entitled STONE-WORK which will reassess the history of architecture in Britain and Ireland through the medium of stone. Advanced Grants are the most competitive of the ERC awards, supporting exceptional leaders in terms of originality and significance of their research contributions. These grants, which support established research leaders in taking their research in a radically new direction, fund teams of researchers for up to five years and are among the most sought-after in the world of research.
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Enriching Architecture: Craft and its conservation in Anglo-Irish building production, 1660–1760Edited by Christine Casey and Melanie Hayes, foreword by Glenn Adamson. UCL Press, 2023, aims to retrieve and rehabilitate surface achievement as a vital element of early modern buildings in Britain and Ireland. Rejected by modernism, demeaned by the conceptual ‘turn’ and too often reduced to its representative or social functions, we argue for the historical legitimacy of creative craft skill as a primary agent in architectural production. However, in contrast to the connoisseurial and developmental perspectives of the past, this book is concerned with how surfaces were designed, achieved and experienced. Click for a free Open Access download