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Preservation Lecture Series: Cormac Murray

Wed, Mar 4    1pm

Cormac Murray is an Irish architect, lecturer at TU Dublin, and series editor at TYPE.ie. His research and publications focus on twentieth‑century Irish architecture, and he is actively involved in the conservation and advocacy of Ireland’s recent built heritage. His books include The Dublin Architecture Guide, 1937-2021 (The Lilliput Press) and America at Home: The Architecture and Politics of the US Embassy in Dublin (The Phibsboro Press).

America at Home: The Architecture and Politics of the US Embassy in Dublin
This book traces the remarkable story of the US Embassy in Dublin, a distinctive circular concrete landmark that opened in 1964. Designed in the 1950s by a young American architect, John M. Johansen, for the US State Department, the building quickly became a symbol of modernity and the promise of America to Irish citizens. Its design process was fraught with political and critical resistance, a stalemate ultimately resolved through the personal intervention of President John F. Kennedy. Built using cutting‑edge concrete technology, the embassy’s 1,600 precast components were flat‑packed, shipped by barge, and assembled on site: American in conception, partly fabricated in Holland, and completed in Ireland. The book draws on newly-released archival photographs, Johansen’s original drawings, and newly commissioned illustrations to bring this extraordinary project to life.