Thinking On Paper, James Horan

THINKING ON PAPER is about the making of hand drawings and the importance, benefits and rewards resulting from maintaining pocket sketchbooks. Containing hundreds of sketches and watercolours from a collection spanning decades, it investigates the value of using drawings to explore ideas, designs and concepts, record architectural observations, and retain experiences of places, languages and cultures encountered on one’s travels.

James Horan is professor Emeritus of the Dublin School of Architecture at TU Dublin, where he served as head of the school from 1992 until 2012. A former president of the European Association for Architectural Education, he has always believed in the value of making drawings by hand for both the architectural student and practitioner. He has been practicing architecture since 1978 and has received numerous architectural awards in Ireland and internationally.