The Irish Times

Not many people naturally link architecture with art, although some architects refer to their discipline as the mother of all arts. The Royal Hibernian Academy's annual exhibition in Dublin has brought architecture into the fold (as it did earlier this year with its exhibition of architectural installations). Sam Stephenson has written an essay on Edwin Lutyens in the catalogue. Architectural photographer Paul Tierney is showing a deep photograph of FLK Architects' library in Baldoyle. There's a watercolour of the Four Courts by Arthur Gibney. Five models of schemes by different architects, and a picture of Tom de Paor's stack of peat briquettes at the Venice Biennale (and across the gallery artist Philip Moss also has a picture of peat, wittily called a Pile of Nostalgia). It's all to do with our greater awareness of design in general, says RHA exhibition curator Ruth Carroll.