The Dublin Architecture Guide demonstrates beautifully that good architecture can be found in the least obvious places: a vocational school in Inchicore, for instance, a pastoral centre in Rathfarnham or a library in Baldoyle. In fact, there are 53 educational buildings included in the guide, 13 churches and 12 community buildings. One of the most important takeaways from this book is that interesting and inspiring architecture is more often than not on our own doorsteps. Indeed, Ill never look at Donnybrook Bus Centre in the same way again.

A compact and beautifully organised curation of the citys rich anddiverse array of modern architecture.

At 432 pages long, its a weighty, substantial book thats bothfunctional and aesthetically pleasing.

On the whole, this is an eminently accessible guide and a well-timedChristmas stocking filler for the architecturally curious in your life.

It captures a variety of buildings across Dublin, not just the greatesthits but some surprises by some well-known practices who werentso well known when they designed these... Its really nice... Ivebeen recommending it to lots of students I teach and it will be reallyinteresting to architects and non-architects alike... Im a big fan of it.

Paul Kelly lectures in Architectural Design Studio, DesignTechnology and History Theory & Criticism at the Dublin Schoolof Architecture. He divides this time between Teaching andPractice, He is a Lecturer in Architecture and a Director of FKLarchitects FKL have lectured and been exhibited nationally andinternationally and have received a number of national awards andbeen nominated for the Mies van der Rohe European ArchitectureAward.

FKL curated conceived and designed the Irish entry for the VeniceBiennale 2006, SubUrban to SuperRural, comprising theoreticalprojects by nine architects on the issue of sprawl. They wereparticipants at the inaugural Lisbon Architecture Triennale withd-void, in 2007. In 2009 FKL initiated the Shadowland Projectexamining how architects can look at solutions to ghost estates.