‘The house allows one to dream in peace.’ gaston bachelard

The place in which we live, be it house, apartment or tent, functions as the next layer—after our clothes—between us and the world. Like our clothes, our house tells others what we are : it aims to seduce them, yet lays our soul bare.
domestic draws on the author’s experiences as both architect and teacher of architecture. As architect he builds houses or extensions to them. He is called upon simply to make a house lovelier, to understand and then express people’s desires and dreams. As teacher at University College, Dublin, he has the unique pleasure of encouraging his first-year students to dream and invent ways and places in which to live.
Illustrated with examples of his work domestic describes the author’s ideas concerning simplicity of purpose and the obtainability of ‘wonder’ through modest and ordinary means.
‘We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us.’ winston churchill

dominic stevens is an architect. After working in Berlin from 1989 to 1995 with Christoph Langhof and Liepe Steigelmann, he returned to Ireland to commence in private practice. He has received awards for a number of projects and has built his own house in timber and straw.

His latest book is entitled rural.