Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office
@architecturefo.bsky.social
(nomadic) Design-Research studio focusing on post-conflict/colonial environments, housing & cities. PhD @BartlettArchUCL Senior Lecturer @ESALA_Edinburgh. Part time radio host @EHFM Derry born. 🇮🇪 🇸🇱 🇷🇼 🇱🇷 www.architecturalfieldoffice.org
Next week at ESALA Colonial Debris Dialogue 2 → Ilze Wolff on “Bessie Head’s Rainclouds as an Architecture of Liberation.”
📅 Wed 19 Nov, 6pm | 📍 West Court, ECA
Acts of cultivation as architectures of resistance.
Register ↓ tinyurl.com/ilzewolff
📅 Wed 19 Nov, 6pm | 📍 West Court, ECA
Acts of cultivation as architectures of resistance.
Register ↓ tinyurl.com/ilzewolff
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Next week at ESALA Colonial Debris Dialogue 2 → Ilze Wolff on “Bessie Head’s Rainclouds as an Architecture of Liberation.”
📅 Wed 19 Nov, 6pm | 📍 West Court, ECA
Acts of cultivation as architectures of resistance.
Register ↓ tinyurl.com/ilzewolff
📅 Wed 19 Nov, 6pm | 📍 West Court, ECA
Acts of cultivation as architectures of resistance.
Register ↓ tinyurl.com/ilzewolff
2nd Colonial Debris, Decolonial Horizons dialogue: Ilze Wolff on “Bessie Head’s Rainclouds as an Architecture of Liberation.” Wed 19 Nov, 6 PM | West Court, ECA. Exploring Rainclouds & Boiteko Garden as acts of writing, community & resistance. tinyurl.com/2s3uyp96 #DecolonialHorizons #ColonialDebris
November 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
2nd Colonial Debris, Decolonial Horizons dialogue: Ilze Wolff on “Bessie Head’s Rainclouds as an Architecture of Liberation.” Wed 19 Nov, 6 PM | West Court, ECA. Exploring Rainclouds & Boiteko Garden as acts of writing, community & resistance. tinyurl.com/2s3uyp96 #DecolonialHorizons #ColonialDebris
Over the past days, students and I made a collective drawing of the old college for Grounds of Protest in Colonial Debris.108 years ago, Balfour signed his declaration — perhaps in an office not far from mine.
These histories still shape what silence and resistance mean today.
#Palestine
These histories still shape what silence and resistance mean today.
#Palestine
November 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Over the past days, students and I made a collective drawing of the old college for Grounds of Protest in Colonial Debris.108 years ago, Balfour signed his declaration — perhaps in an office not far from mine.
These histories still shape what silence and resistance mean today.
#Palestine
These histories still shape what silence and resistance mean today.
#Palestine
Ill be giving a talk tonight on Rwanda's Forests and virtue signalling of architecture-ecology-in person + online - details in image @edincollegeofart.bsky.social Image: Karisoke Cabin on a Foggy Day, Rwanda 1969. Photograph by Bob Campbell, Courtesy of University of Florida Special Collections
October 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Ill be giving a talk tonight on Rwanda's Forests and virtue signalling of architecture-ecology-in person + online - details in image @edincollegeofart.bsky.social Image: Karisoke Cabin on a Foggy Day, Rwanda 1969. Photograph by Bob Campbell, Courtesy of University of Florida Special Collections
* First event *Colonial Debris,Decolonial Horizons
Wed 29 Oct, 6pm. Adam House, 3 Chambers St.A public dialogue on University of Edinburgh’s Race Review and its architectural implications with Nicki Frith, Nicola Perugini, Shaira Vadasaria, Samantha Likonde & Claire Walsh 🔗 tinyurl.com/4vfmjtyp
Wed 29 Oct, 6pm. Adam House, 3 Chambers St.A public dialogue on University of Edinburgh’s Race Review and its architectural implications with Nicki Frith, Nicola Perugini, Shaira Vadasaria, Samantha Likonde & Claire Walsh 🔗 tinyurl.com/4vfmjtyp
October 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
* First event *Colonial Debris,Decolonial Horizons
Wed 29 Oct, 6pm. Adam House, 3 Chambers St.A public dialogue on University of Edinburgh’s Race Review and its architectural implications with Nicki Frith, Nicola Perugini, Shaira Vadasaria, Samantha Likonde & Claire Walsh 🔗 tinyurl.com/4vfmjtyp
Wed 29 Oct, 6pm. Adam House, 3 Chambers St.A public dialogue on University of Edinburgh’s Race Review and its architectural implications with Nicki Frith, Nicola Perugini, Shaira Vadasaria, Samantha Likonde & Claire Walsh 🔗 tinyurl.com/4vfmjtyp
Year-long series @ESALA: **Colonial Debris / Decolonial Horizons**— dialogues + actions responding to University of Edinburgh’s Race Review. Unearthing built legacies of colonialism through lectures, workshops & collective actions. 🗓️ Semester 1 kicks off 29 Oct 🔗 More soon. Come through & share.
October 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Year-long series @ESALA: **Colonial Debris / Decolonial Horizons**— dialogues + actions responding to University of Edinburgh’s Race Review. Unearthing built legacies of colonialism through lectures, workshops & collective actions. 🗓️ Semester 1 kicks off 29 Oct 🔗 More soon. Come through & share.
**Join us next Thurs 23 Oct, 6:30PM at Adam House LT for *Houses of Flood, Silt and Shadow* — a lecture by architect & writer Matthew Butcher on speculative, environmental design.
Details & work: [matthewbutcher.org](matthewbutcher.org)
#ESALA #Architecture
Details & work: [matthewbutcher.org](matthewbutcher.org)
#ESALA #Architecture
October 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
**Join us next Thurs 23 Oct, 6:30PM at Adam House LT for *Houses of Flood, Silt and Shadow* — a lecture by architect & writer Matthew Butcher on speculative, environmental design.
Details & work: [matthewbutcher.org](matthewbutcher.org)
#ESALA #Architecture
Details & work: [matthewbutcher.org](matthewbutcher.org)
#ESALA #Architecture
gotta love the cameo #edinburgh #dianekeaton
October 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
gotta love the cameo #edinburgh #dianekeaton
The Shared island unit- Masters of Architecture fieldtrip @esala roaming the watersheds of Lough Foyle. We kayaked its edges , held its inhabitants, probed its controversies - continually questioning the 1910 border. Images - Lough Foyle agency; ‘far and wild’; fish lists; oysters and mobouy dump.
October 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The Shared island unit- Masters of Architecture fieldtrip @esala roaming the watersheds of Lough Foyle. We kayaked its edges , held its inhabitants, probed its controversies - continually questioning the 1910 border. Images - Lough Foyle agency; ‘far and wild’; fish lists; oysters and mobouy dump.
Reposted by Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office
Now that the UN Commission, chaired by a judge who headed the tribunal in Rwanda, has affirmed that Israel is perpetrating genocide on 4 different grounds, will we hear from those who dismissed, and in some cases denigrated, colleagues for raising the alarm? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
‘Direct evidence of genocidal intent’: the UN commission of inquiry’s report on Israel’s actions in Gaza
Legal analysis has accused Israel of committing genocide in four out of five categories as defined by 1948 convention
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Now that the UN Commission, chaired by a judge who headed the tribunal in Rwanda, has affirmed that Israel is perpetrating genocide on 4 different grounds, will we hear from those who dismissed, and in some cases denigrated, colleagues for raising the alarm? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
‘Shared island March unit’ is underway at Esala. Image- map of sites sounds Lough Foyle. Shroove beach, inishowen
September 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
‘Shared island March unit’ is underway at Esala. Image- map of sites sounds Lough Foyle. Shroove beach, inishowen
Some 'professional' images of our 'Hill Station' exhibition on at RIBA North West Tate Liverpool until 16th November taken by Peter. Images © The Royal Institute of British Architects/Pete Carr hashtag#Sierraleone
September 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Some 'professional' images of our 'Hill Station' exhibition on at RIBA North West Tate Liverpool until 16th November taken by Peter. Images © The Royal Institute of British Architects/Pete Carr hashtag#Sierraleone
Future of learning? Office Pods @eca school of architecture. What sort of message are we sending our students?? What would Jacques Tati say?
September 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Future of learning? Office Pods @eca school of architecture. What sort of message are we sending our students?? What would Jacques Tati say?
Reposted by Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office
If I were in Liverpool, I would go see this:
www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-l... via @architecturefo.bsky.social
www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-l... via @architecturefo.bsky.social
Hill Station – Display at Tate Liverpool + RIBA North | Tate
www.tate.org.uk
August 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
If I were in Liverpool, I would go see this:
www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-l... via @architecturefo.bsky.social
www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-l... via @architecturefo.bsky.social
I’ve never been prouder to be from Derry than now www.derrynow.com/news/local-n...
Council backs Palestine Action against own legal advice
'Council condemns Israel's murder of more than 1,000 desperate and hungry Palestinians at food distribution sites'
www.derrynow.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I’ve never been prouder to be from Derry than now www.derrynow.com/news/local-n...
Here is my paper that engages with the racial-spatial politics of conservation and colonial legacies of architectural discourse. I examine how architecture - past and present - is used by certain actors to commodify, exoticize and capture Rwanda’s landscapes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Here is my paper that engages with the racial-spatial politics of conservation and colonial legacies of architectural discourse. I examine how architecture - past and present - is used by certain actors to commodify, exoticize and capture Rwanda’s landscapes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Passing through highlands of Albania and stopped in small town called Korçe. Struck by number of really handsome generous civic spaces that are result of Bolles + Wilson 2007 masterplan.City library City hall, Red bar, Teatri Andon z theatre more here drawingmatter.org/bolleswilson...
July 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Passing through highlands of Albania and stopped in small town called Korçe. Struck by number of really handsome generous civic spaces that are result of Bolles + Wilson 2007 masterplan.City library City hall, Red bar, Teatri Andon z theatre more here drawingmatter.org/bolleswilson...
Been working night and day on exhibit. Wearing Dust, splinters, shards and fragments. Come see at RIBA and Tate Liverpool 4th sept to 16th November
July 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Been working night and day on exhibit. Wearing Dust, splinters, shards and fragments. Come see at RIBA and Tate Liverpool 4th sept to 16th November
Tune into @EHFM today at 3pm to hear Najmeh's (my wifes) special show on Iran www.ehfm.live/residents/be...
July 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Tune into @EHFM today at 3pm to hear Najmeh's (my wifes) special show on Iran www.ehfm.live/residents/be...
Finally got hold of Cities Under Siege (Documenta11, 2002). Our exhibit echoes Ibrahim Abdullah’s essay on Freetown’s segregated settlement patterns and the colonial logic behind Hill Station’s ‘climatic estate.’
July 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Finally got hold of Cities Under Siege (Documenta11, 2002). Our exhibit echoes Ibrahim Abdullah’s essay on Freetown’s segregated settlement patterns and the colonial logic behind Hill Station’s ‘climatic estate.’
Project with @RIBA overlaps with Liverpool Biennial @Tate, theme of 'Bedrock'. The colonial housing project at Hill Station resonate with this theme through its geological impulse—specifically rejecting the local terrain, deemed a breeding ground for malaria. www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-l...
Hill Station – Display at Tate Liverpool + RIBA North | Tate
www.tate.org.uk
July 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Project with @RIBA overlaps with Liverpool Biennial @Tate, theme of 'Bedrock'. The colonial housing project at Hill Station resonate with this theme through its geological impulse—specifically rejecting the local terrain, deemed a breeding ground for malaria. www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-l...
Pleased to announce 'Hill Station: Architecture and the Altitudes of Empire' with Edward Lawrenson, opens @RIBA Liverpool September 3rd. Funded by Arts council Ireland @edincollegeofart.bsky.social and Graham foundation. Special thks to Richard Collins. Press release here 👉🏽 lnkd.in/eEFmirZR
June 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Pleased to announce 'Hill Station: Architecture and the Altitudes of Empire' with Edward Lawrenson, opens @RIBA Liverpool September 3rd. Funded by Arts council Ireland @edincollegeofart.bsky.social and Graham foundation. Special thks to Richard Collins. Press release here 👉🏽 lnkd.in/eEFmirZR
Know Iran. See it. Iranians are the best people (next to the Irish). I have so much love for the people and place. I stand against tyranny
#isfahan civicness in abundance
June 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Know Iran. See it. Iranians are the best people (next to the Irish). I have so much love for the people and place. I stand against tyranny
Days like today that make academia worth it. Preview of fragments of our (with Ed) exhibition @RIBA with Lioba hirsch (CAS_UoE) Lisa moffit & Piper Bernbaum @carleton.ca @JamesClegg from Talbot Rice, Richard Collins @edincollegeofart.bsky.social , Najmeh Modarres, and Nilufar Movahedi
June 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Days like today that make academia worth it. Preview of fragments of our (with Ed) exhibition @RIBA with Lioba hirsch (CAS_UoE) Lisa moffit & Piper Bernbaum @carleton.ca @JamesClegg from Talbot Rice, Richard Collins @edincollegeofart.bsky.social , Najmeh Modarres, and Nilufar Movahedi