05/08/2026
Uncle Toby’s Garden 🌳🍏 collects the installations, pavilions, models and drawings Níall McLaughlin Architects have made in collaboration with others between 1990 and 2026 — the work at the edges of the practice, where the thinking happens.
Most architectural monographs present finished buildings and imply a straight line from intention to result. This one does the opposite. Drawn from three and a half decades of collaborative work, it catalogues the practice’s open-ended processes — its digressions and reversals, the routes not taken — and in doing so reframes architecture as a set of performances: ritual, collaboration, speculation and play. The material is the kind usually left out: installations built for a single occasion, pavilions, study models, drawings made to think with rather than to instruct. Published by Objectif in 2026, the year Níall McLaughlin received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, it offers an unusually candid picture of how a Stirling Prize-winning practice actually works.
