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The thesis describes two fields of practice in which Steve Larkin acts as a master: architecture and music. Through a precise description of his new insights in how traditional Irish music comes into being (the interiorities of music), Steve Larkin comes to a deeper understanding of the mechanisms at work in design processes in architecture (the interiorities of landscape). In an elaborated study, research cases in music and architecture intertwine and imbricate so as to form a robust piece of research that produces a viable account on the inter- and transdisciplinarity at work in a practice out of which the author has theorized new insights on a meta level that can be transported and applied in other inter and transdisciplinary practices. Index 1. INTRODUCING ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE General Introduction 1. Introduction to Research Strategies & Validation Procedures 2. ADAPT-r research 3. Early Research - Introduction to Traditional Irish Music - Landscape and Artefact & Landscape and Space 4. Introduction to Projects and Initial Observations - Four Initial Case Studies 5. Early Research Methodology and Observations - Wallscore & Conclusions 6. Communities of Practice 7. Big Red Pavilion - Postscript 2. ORAL CULTURE OF TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC Practice in an Oral Culture and the Space of Traditional Irish Music Introduction to Music: Introduction to Objects and Meaning 1. Cultural, Compositional and Presentational Meaning - Perception of Objects - O’ Rahilly’s Grave by Julia Clifford 2. Oral Objects & Anthropological Process 3. Cultural Meaning - Learning Caoineadh Uí Neill from Denis Murphy 4. Compositional Meaning - Syntax and Structure - My Love is in America 5. Improvisation and Development - Personal Interpretations & Tommie Potts’ My Love is in America - Regional Interpretations & The Morning Star 6. Presentational Meaning & Character - Port na bPúcaí 7. Weak Meaning 8. Final Observations and Conclusion 3. EARLY THEOY OF PROCESS IN ARCHITECTURE Introduction 1. Early Design Process Diagram 2. Introductory Principles - Anthropological Process, Perception of Objects, Collecting Objects, Intuition and Sensibility, Whole Representations, Conceptualising Objects, Idealisation and Contextualisation, Scale of Objects . 3. Associative and Compositional Sets 4. Further Examination of Meaning and Syntax in Compositional Process 5. Conclusion - Leon’s Drawing, Deficiencies, Critique and Conclusion 4. COLLECTING AND ASSEMBLING OBJECTS Pre-Introduction Introduction 1. Design Process Landscape Maps - Methodology and General Research Observations 2. House at Coppenagh Design Landscape Map - Case Study 1 3. House at Kimmage Design Landscape Map - Case Study 2 4. Coppenagh and Kimmage Summary Landscape - Portico Object Study 5. Collecting and Assembling Objects - Final Observations 6. Anthropological Music - Album Recording of Traditional Irish Music by Steve Larkin and Mick Kinsella 5. IMPROVISATION AND DEVELOPMENT Introduction 1. Case Study 1 - An Páistín Fionn and Galway Bay - New Music Recording 2. Case Study 2 - The Gutter Book 3. Conclusion 6. DEVELOMPENT OF THEORY OF PROCESS IN ARCHITECTURE Introduction 1. New Design Process Diagram 2. Observations on Potentiality & Assemblages 3. Interior Space of Composition 7. LANDSCAPE Introduction 1. The DNA of Landscape - Representation in Landscape 2. Artefact and Interiority 3. Building Landscape in Culture 4. Spatial Intelligence and Walter Pichler 5. Cultural Space of Landscape 6. Conclusions - New Knowledge and Communities of Practice 8. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Bibliography 2. Table of Images 3. Table of Recordings 4. Images Used in Design Landscape Drawings and Summaries from Chapter 4 9. APPENDIX 1. An Páistín Fionn & Galway Bay Recording Notes 2. Kimmage Linear Scores 3. Landscape Drawings 4. Tender Drawings 5. The Gutter Book Complete nrpages: 275 (353) status: published

2012 AAI Awards Publication by Gandon Editions. Award winning House in Bogwest by Steve Larkin Architects. Includes text by Steve Larkin Architects, Peer Review text by AAI awards 2012 international jury of Architects including Joseph Rykwert, Keith Williams, Noel Brady, Michael McGarry and Ruairí Ó Cuív, Drawings by Steve Larkin and Photographs by Alice Clancy.

Interview with Steve Larkin examining the architecture of House at Bogwest. Specifically in relation to use of zenithal light. Article text by Rafael Suriani. Includes photographs by Alice Clancy

Critical review of House at Bogwest by Steve Larkin Architects. Text by editorial team, drawings by Steve Larkin and photographs by Alice Clancy.

Full length critical peer review article about House at Bogwest by architect Emmett Scanlon writing for A10. Included visit to the house and an interview with Steve Larkin. Photographs by Alice Clancy. Photographs and plans describing House at Bogwest.

Publication associated with AR House awards 2012 by the Architectural Review. Text includes citation by Jury and based on interview / text with Steve Larkin. Drawings by Steve Larkin and photographs by Alice Clancy.

Full length critical peer review article about House at Bogwest, which was the winner of the 2012 RIAI Best House award, by architect Emmett Scanlon. Photographs by Alice Clancy. Photographs and plans describing House at Bogwest.