Douglas Carson

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One part of a family of five. Teaches and practises architecture in Dublin, Ireland as one part of Carson & Crushell Architects and University College Dublin

Photo of concrete walls in UCD

Photograph of colourful walls

As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood,
That crests its Head with clouds, beneath the flood
Feeds its deep roots, and with the bulging flank
Of its wide base controls the fronting bank,
(By the slant current's pressure scoop'd away
The fronting bank becomes a foam-piled bay)
High in the Fork the uncouth Idol knits
His channel'd Brows; low murmurs stir by fits
And dark below the horrid Faquir sits;
An Horror from its broad Head's branchy wreath
Broods o'er the rude Idolatry beneath—

Irish Times excerpt with paragraphs that are only 1 or 2 sentences long

Newspaper Headline: Catherine Connolly is going to win

Text from Philip Hoare, "William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love" (2025): "John O'Neil..married an Ellen Blake who kept a shebeen in Rathmines, she then lent her name to O'Neil's son by another mistress. It was this son, James Blake who became the father of William (Blake)."

Painting of St Catherine

A bridge

Book on Milan Interiors

kOH i NOOR CLUTCH PENCIL

Leighton House

arts and crafts gate lodge

Aalto's Vyborg library

Mosaic showing a jaguar attacking a slave

Architecture can no more solve our problems than music can solve noise pollution.

Book cover

Aerial view of Killarney

Poetry book cover. Czeslaw Milosz