My article in Building Material#19 Art and Architecture Journal-Nov 2009

Selected Work in Mus-Mus.org. A collaborative photography webspace

Select work for Issue #02 of Super Massive Black Hole-

Boundaries-II. Continued-01. Most recent images from another work-in-progress Nov 2009.German-Czech-Austrian Borders

Selected work in 'What Lies Beneath Nature and Urban Landscape in EU photography', part of FotoWeekDC 2009, Washington.

Click here to see a slide show of my Maze work at Eco2009 Exeter Contemporary Open 17th Sept-4th Nov 2009

Work In Progress Oct 2009-New sites of religious worship in Ireland

CHURCHES-Calvary Baptist Church

Calvary Chapel

Gilgal Christian Church

Glorious Family International Church

Good News Christian Church

Lee Valley Bible Church

LightHouse Baptist Church

New Life Community Church

Open Door Christian Fellowship

The Redeemed Christian Church of God-Cork

The Redeemed Christian Church of God-Dublin

Tower of Power Church

Youghal Baptist Church

My selectedwork as part of the Irish Representation at Venice Biennale of Architecture 2008-Farmleigh Gallery Dublin May 2009

Boundaries-II.

After almost a ten year break I have returned to the body of work 'Boundaries'. The reason is that in Nov 2007 the eastern ascession countries have now signed upto the Schengen Treaty. These include, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Hungry,Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia(excluding Malta and Greece as they have no land borders with the rest of the EU). Switzerland even though is not in the EU has a common travel policy like the rest. Here are some of the new images from the Polish/German/Czech borders. Although they are the first images of what I consider More to follow soon including some of the older ones and full info.

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Wildenau Czech-German Border March 2009 Hundsbach-Siedlung Czech-German Border March 2009 Waldsassen Czech-German Border March 2009 Deutschheimseidel Czech-German Border March 2009 Forst Polish-German Border Jan 2009

Would the last person to leave please turn off the lights

Recent thoughts about topography and finance- See my recent blog posting on the Irish Architecture Foundation website http://www.architecturefoundation.ie/2008/12/17/would-the-last-person-to-leave-please-turn-off-the-lights-dara-mc-grath/

Installation images from my participation at the Irish Pavillion at the 11th Venice Biennale of Architecture 2008

Views from the one of the saloni rooms at the Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, former residence of the Duchess of Parma-Sept 2008 The installation consists of a TV shaped armature housing a slide projector, back-projected,that displays 24 looped photographs from the photographic series 'Deconstructing the maze'

Web Link to the Official Irish Biennale website

Also includes a really cool video piece that brings you thru the exhibition space www.thelivesofspaces.com/

Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, -View from the Academia Valporetta Station

Designers Conceptual drawing of the armature that housed my slide show

Donnelly Mirrors

Donnelly Mirrors, a subsidiary of US car parts supplier Magna International opened its factory in Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland in 1968. Here the company manufactured mirrors and windows for automobiles all over the world. Due to fierce competition, high costs and falling sales the company closed in 2007 with the loss of 525 jobs when it moved much of its production to North America and Spain. As it stands currently in August 2008, the factory is a space in-between, a room half-stripped of its furniture, its properties disintegrating as time passes on. No longer the thriving employer in the locality, but neither a fully blank space either. It becomes a difficult arena to absorb and comprehend. What happens to such a space when its people, in this case its employees, are no longer needed there? What “qualities” does that in-between space that cross -over place of abandoned factory floors and the industrial landscape, take on? Does the process of the abandonment of industrial architecture also erase the memories, or are they possibly intimately wedded to the space that is being left behind? And can a deeper understanding of the “cavity”, (i.e. the space left behind) rather than the “solid”, also inform our understanding of the creation of architecture, or, in this case, the creation of anti-architecture?