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Street…who owns the city? - Lecture with Peter Barber OBE RA
Oct
1
7:15 pm19:15
Talk, Event

Street…who owns the city? - Lecture with Peter Barber OBE RA

Peter Barber, Founder & Director Peter Barber Architects will deliver a talk setting the social and political context in which the practice are working.

Date Thursday  01st October, 2026

Time 19:15 – 20:30hr

Location The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane

FREE entry - All are welcome, but prebooking is essential as places are limited.

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Peter Barber OBE RA

Peter Barber worked with Richard Rogers and Will Alsop prior to establishing Peter Barber Architects in 1989. Over the last 30 years Peter has designed a significant number of award-winning housing projects in numerous London Boroughs. He has twice been UK Housing Architect of the Year and won the NLA Building of the Year for 2016.  Peter was awarded the Royal Academy Grand Prize for Architecture in 2016 and numerous RIBA and Housing Design Awards. He has been invited by the Government to lead a discussion on “Designing for Better Public Spaces” with a team of top built environment professionals. In 2022 he was awarded an OBE for services to architecture. He was also awarded the Soane Medal in 2023. He has been described by the independent as one of the UK’s leading urbanists.

PBA Practice Statement

Peter Barber Architects was established in 1989 in studios built by the practice on a canal side wharf in the East End of London. In 2002 the practice moved to a grade II listed Victorian print works which it has refurbished in King's Cross. We are an award-winning design-orientated practice with numerous ground-breaking mixed-use and residential schemes, award-winning planning studies across the UK and individual buildings such as the Villa Anbar, twice short-listed for the international Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

In October 2001 the Practice’s Donnybrook Urban Quarter won first prize in the Architecture Foundation's prestigious Innovations in Housing Competition. The project won a Housing Design Award, runner-up in Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, AIA Award and RIBA Award. It was also short-listed to the last 10 for the 2006 Stirling Prize and included in the exhibition of 50 of the most significant UK buildings of the last half century. A series of radical urban housing projects have followed which have variously won Housing Design Awards, RIBA Awards and AIA Awards. Peter Barber Architects was UK Housing Architect of the year in 2007 and 2011 and won the Royal Academy Grand Award for Architecture in 2015. In 2016, the practise’s Holmes Road Studios was the New London Architecture’s Overall Building of the Year and in 2016 and 2017 were included in The Guardian’s top 10 buildings (worldwide) for the year. In 2021, the office was awarded the AJ100 Contribution to the Profession Award. PBA’s project McGrath Road was awarded the 2022 Neave Brown Award for the UK’s best affordable housing scheme.

The Practice's varied portfolio of work is underpinned by a consistent commitment to radical solutions and excellence in design, which has put it at the forefront of a new wave of high-profile practices in London. The practice has built unusual and innovative projects with clients such as St Mungo's Community Housing Association, Circle 33 Housing Group, East Thames Housing Group and The London Boroughs of Newham, Enfield, Greenwich, Camden and Barking.

Supported by:  Galway City Council

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A Place to Gather - Guzzle and Almost Anywhere
Sept
26
6:00 pm18:00
Event

A Place to Gather - Guzzle and Almost Anywhere

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A Place to Gather 

Hosted by Guzzle and Almost Anywhere

Talk at the Table

The Printworks 15 Market Street, Galway, H91 TCX3
18:00-21:30 hr, Saturday 26, September 2026
Tickets  – €65 via Guzzle mag ( guzzlemag.com/events/aate). 

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For Architecture at the Edge, Guzzle and Almost Anywhere come together at settle, TRESTLE’s temporary public interior, for a site-specific dinner exploring place as something we create through gathering, rather than a space we are fixed to.

There is a certain freedom in not having a permanent kitchen. We arrive with what we need, find our bearings and begin to cook. The kitchen takes shape around us; the table follows. In this sense, we carry our rituals of hospitality from one place to another, finding a sense of identity and belonging through the act of gathering.

settle feels like a natural meeting point for this idea. Designed to be dismantled, rearranged and reimagined, the installation asks how objects and infrastructure can transform a space into somewhere to gather. Our dinner will extend that invitation, activating the structure as a site of commensality, a dining room and a temporary home. Then, like us, it moves on.

Guzzle is a print food publication and events collective founded in Dublin and now based in East London. The first two issues honed in on nostalgia and love, challenging familiar narratives by approaching them from unexpected angles. Issue Three: A Hunger for Home imaginatively opens doors to spaces and places across the globe, from Irish pubs overseas to a cookbook club in Copenhagen and a writer’s early upbringing in Hanoi.

Since its launch, Guzzle has cultivated an engaged international readership, reflecting a growing global appetite for thoughtful, art-led conversations around food and culture. The publication has appeared at festivals including Body & Soul, Ballymaloe Festival of Food, Bound Art Book Fair in Manchester, Dublin Art Book Fair and Athens Art Book Fair. It has been distributed across 18 cities in 11 countries, toured Berlin as part of a Culture Ireland-funded exhibition, and featured in an exhibition at London’s Gallery of Photographers.

Almost Anywhere is a hospitality collective, hosting feasts at the intersection of food, culture and the arts. Almost Anywhere was founded by Tom Hayes, a Ballymaloe Cookery School alumnus, after training in London and Copenhagen, where he developed a love for celebrating the finest seasonal produce at any given time of year. 

Almost Anywhere allows the best produce of the season to express itself, supporting regenerative farmers along the way. This work has brought them to many interesting locations across Ireland and beyond from art galleries to forests and cliff edges. They have hosted feasts in farmhouses of France and Italy and even as far as Utah in the USA. 

settle is a temporary installation designed and curated by TRESTLE. The project proposes a new public interior for gathering and collective experience in the contemporary city. Inspired by the functionalism and adaptability of Irish vernacular furniture, the installation explores how an infrastructure of considered objects can formulate a new, albeit temporary, public interior. The installation can be recast and reformatted to host a variety of events and gatherings – in this way it acts as an extended invitation to the city.

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Chef, restaurateur and author JP McMahon at settle
Sept
19
to 27 Sept
Event

Chef, restaurateur and author JP McMahon at settle

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settle by TRESTLE is the location for a talk with local food hero Chef JP McMahon

“For me, cooking is essentially trying to tell a story and give a gift.”

JP McMahon is a chef, restaurateur and author. He is the owner and culinary director of Michelin-starred Aniar Restaurant and award-winning Cava Bodega, and runs the Aniar Boutique Cookery School.

He is also the founder of Food on the Edge, an international event that gathers people from all over the world to cook, eat and exchange ideas on how to make the food industry more sustainable. McMahon is committed to buying and supporting the best of local and free-range produce and engaging directly with farmers and producers.

As a director, founding member and the current Chair of the Galway Food Festival, McMahon is an ambassador for Irish food, travelling widely to promote Ireland, its produce and food culture. He is also an ambassador for Spanish food in Ireland promoting wines from Galicia and Jerez.

He is also a published author, a food writer and a contributor to the Irish Times, Radio One and Newstalk Radio and has a monthly slot on RTE TV and was twice the winning mentor for the RTE Series Taste of Success.

Tickets FREE but pre-booking is essential.

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Gathering at Tigh Páidín 
Sept
19
to 27 Sept
Event, Workshop

Gathering at Tigh Páidín 

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Gathering at Tigh Páidín 

Menlo’s vernacular heritage Gathering

Workshop / Community Event

Venue: Tigh Páidín (H91 YW9W)


2 - 5pm, Saturday 19th September, 2026



FREE entry - All are welcome, no booking required 

Galway City Council have been engaged in a vernacular survey and research over the past year in North Galway City in the townland of Ballindooley, which has been part funded by the Heritage Council.

Following on from this, Galway City Council have commenced Phase 1 of a Vernacular Heritage Survey of Menlo, a vernacular settlement to the north west of Galway City.

The survey will focus on revisiting and resurveying dwellings that were recorded by UCD Architecture students in the 1940s. The survey will utilise these drawings and mapping, which are held by the National Museum of Ireland, as a baseline to undertake the reassessment of Menlo’s vernacular heritage.

As part of the vernacular heritage survey process and in line with the spirit of this year’s AATE festival – ‘Le Chéile – the Architectures of Belonging’, the Galway

City Council Architectural Conservation Officer and the appointed vernacular consultants will host a community event to gather information on Menlo’s vernacular heritage.


Supported by: 

Galway City Council 

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Culture Night Late - with Cathedral (AKA Shampain).
Sept
18
to 27 Sept
Event

Culture Night Late - with Cathedral (AKA Shampain).

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Culture Night Late with Cathedral (AKA Shampain).

Tickets FREE but pre-booking is essential.

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Nothing lasts forever and nothing reflects this more than the changing facade of the city that surrounds us. An hour exploring the power of holding onto what makes you happy and ultimately letting it go in search of eternal peace; Cathedral looks to pose the question, not whether change is good or bad, but whether a city can hold its own in a time where its inhabitants have never had such uncertain futures. 

Artist Bio

Having spent years toying with ambient and ominous sounds, Cathedral is the new experimental alias from Shampain. Prior to this he had already soundtracked silent classics such as Man Of Aran, Nos Feratu, Faust and Irish Destiny in celebrated venues such as The Pepper Canister Church, The Complex, An Taibhdhearc, The Galway Town Hall & The Sugar Club. 

Cathedral aims to challenge audiences and explore the boundaries of electronic, underground and avant garde music while presenting a sound that he had nurtured in the club scene with a new artistic vision. 

 Project credits

"Cathedral" is part of the AATE 2026 Culture Night Late programme, funded by the Arts Council and the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport under the Night-Time Economy programme with support from Galway City Council Arts Office.

 For more details on our Culture Night Late events in Galway City, you can check the @Archattheedge Instagram page for updates.

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Culture Night Late - Pálás an Phobail - tasting a sense of place
Sept
18
to 27 Sept
Workshop, Event, Outdoor installation

Culture Night Late - Pálás an Phobail - tasting a sense of place

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Culture Night Late - Blanka Major + Hinterland

Pálás an Phobail - tasting a sense of place

Festival Printworks Gallery, Market St, (Next to the Portershed a dó.)
19:00-23:00 hr, Friday 18 September, 2026
FREE entry – but prebooking is essential, no registration no entry.

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AATE are working in collaboration with Blanka Major and Hinterland with the aim to connect food, people and place.

Architecture at the Edge is partnership with Hinterland will create a series of spaces of encounter for Culture Night, - curated by Blanka Major - connecting an outdoor installation on Druid Lane, a happening at the Mick Lally Theatre, and a culinary exploration at the Festival Printworks Gallery through the shared theme of belonging.

At its heart is an edible installation that takes the form of a Pálás an Phobail—a People’s palace—where the everyday rituals of gathering, eating, listening, and exchanging ideas unfold through food, sound, and conversation. Guests move through a sequence of spaces shaped by stories and sensory encounters, each revealing a different relationship between food, landscape and memory—inviting them to taste a sense of place. From a canopy of flags stretching across the street and a performative public interior, to solitary moments and shared tables, the evening explores how places—and people—come to belong through the encounters they foster, the stories they carry, and the memories they create.

The evening includes inputs by:
Professor Anna Davies, Geography, Trinity College Dublin & 
Michael Higgins, Political Liaison & Systems Change Lead, Bohemians Co-operatives.

Blanka Major / Curators Talk >>>

The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid ln, Galway.

17:00 – 19:30 h, Sunday 20 September 

Tickets: Free but prebooking is advised via Eventbrite

‘Pálás an Phobail - tasting a sense of place’, is part of the Culture Night Late programme, funded by the Arts Council and the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport under the Night-Time Economy programme with support from Galway City Council Arts Office.

For more details on Culture Night Late in Galway City, you can check out the @thisisgalway or @Archattheedge Instagram pages.

BIOS

Blanka Major is a Zurich-based architect with Hungarian roots whose work spans architecture, food, research, teaching, writing, and curation. She explores how everyday infrastructures shape collective life, using cooking as a spatial and social practice. She is part of ZAS*, a LINA Spotlight Fellow 2025, and was nominated for the Swiss Art Award in Architecture (2026).

The Hinterland Team are a west of Ireland based initiative dedicated to community-rooted research, creativity, and action that nourishes just, inclusive and sustainable food futures. Together with Blanka will we curate an event which responds to the intersecting challenges of climate, agriculture, access, and belonging by cultivating holistic, place-based models of change.

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