{"product_id":"twelve-halls","title":"Twelve Halls","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwelve Halls\u003c\/strong\u003e gathers twelve simple spaces designed for gathering — rooms for dining, storytelling, music, drama, religious ritual and sport — each one built around the ritual at its heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout This Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 2018 for Níall McLaughlin Architects' contribution to the 16th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, \u003cem\u003eTwelve Halls\u003c\/em\u003e takes a single word as its organising idea. A hall, in McLaughlin's reading, embodies people coming together to express a shared identity — and the twelve projects assembled here, built and unbuilt, are examined less as objects than as settings for collective life. Each is accompanied by an essay by McLaughlin himself, alongside drawings, photographs and images, so the book reads as sustained architectural writing as much as monograph. This second edition was published in 2025 to accompany his presentation at the Barbican, and arrives with the practice's standing considerably changed: the Stirling Prize for the New Library at Magdalene College in 2022, and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eKey Features\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSecond edition, published 2025 to accompany Níall McLaughlin's Barbican presentation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwelve built and unbuilt projects, each with an accompanying essay by McLaughlin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e131 images across drawings and photography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSoftcover with canvas jacket, thread sewn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesigned and published by Objectif, a non-profit edition supporting artistic and literary work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat You'll Discover\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow a single typological idea — the hall as a room for gathering — can organise a body of work across wildly different programmes and scales\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMcLaughlin's own writing on each project, an unusually direct account of intention from a practice better known for its craft\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy ritual, rather than function, is the useful lens for reading these buildings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe work that formed the basis of the practice's 2018 Venice Biennale contribution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNíall McLaughlin is an Irish architect who founded Níall McLaughlin Architects in London in 1991. The practice won the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2022 for the New Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and McLaughlin received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 2026 for lifetime achievement. He has taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture for over 25 years, with visiting professorships at UCLA and Yale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Softcover with canvas jacket, thread sewn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240 x 297 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9783982671215\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Objectif Edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Second edition, 2025\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect For:\u003c\/strong\u003e Readers following contemporary British and Irish architecture, anyone interested in buildings for collective ritual, and admirers of McLaughlin's drawing and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Objectif Edition","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48850667831521,"sku":"9783982671215","price":99.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1116\/0464\/files\/Twelve_Halls_9783982671215.jpg?v=1785893461","url":"https:\/\/bookshopbyuro.com\/products\/twelve-halls","provider":"Bookshop by Uro","version":"1.0","type":"link"}