paul dillon architects 

Curated by Jantje Engels and Marius Grootveld, in collaboration with the Drawing Matter Trust and the Architecture Foundation, London, Alternative Histories is a unique international architectural exhibition. Following runs in London, and Brussels, Alternative Histories is travelled to the Irish Architectural Archive in Merrion Square, Dublin.

The curators invited more than eighty contemporary architectural practices across Europe to imagine an exchange with architects from the past. Each office was assigned a different drawing from the collection of Drawing Matter. The architects were then tasked with making a model that not only responded to what they saw, but envisioned an alternative future for the original drawing while adhering to the constraints of the project.

The Irish architectural practices invited were Noreile Breen, Clancy Moore, Tom de Paor, Ryan Kennihan, Taka, David Leech, Paul Dillon, Steve Larkin, Thomas O’Brien Architects, Elizabeth Hatz, Grafton Architects, Niall McLaughlin, GKMP, and O’Donnell + Tuomey.

Paul Dillon Architects produced a model together with assembly drawings in response to the sketch they were given, ‘104 Village’ 2014 (377 x 427mm) by Florian Beigel (1941–2018) and Philip Christou.