PETER CARROLL is an architect and educator. He is the Director of the award winning A2 Architects, a practice he co-founded in 2005 with Caomhán Murphy and has led as Sole Director since 2012. Peter graduated from University College Dublin in 1995 and has been a member of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland (RIAI) since 1999. Before establishing A2 Architects, Peter was an Associate at O’Donnell & Tuomey Architects in Dublin and the Pritzker Prize-winning Rafael Moneo in Madrid. He has served as Head of Architecture at the University of Limerick (UL) since September 2023. His teaching emphasises a "Resilient Design Curriculum," an inter-university project developed to address the challenges of the climate emergency. Peter is deeply invested in advanced construction education and strategic academic initiatives such as the SAUL Intelligence Unit. He has held visiting and external examiner roles at international institutions including KTH Stockholm, Universidad Camilo José Cela in Madrid and the University of Nottingham. He co-founded DoCoMoMo Ireland, edited the Building Material journal for the Architectural Association of Ireland, and served on the RIAI Council. Peter has curated and contributed to exhibitions, representing Ireland at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale in 2007 and the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018 and 2023 with collaborators.
FREE SCHOOL OF is a reflective, free-source educational platform celebrating conversation over any other form of knowledge. With the aim to challenge dogmas and explore contradictions, FSO is inconclusive and uncertain. At the heart of this school lies the curiosity about creative processes, boundaries between creative disciplines, and how established hierarchies between emerging and established voices can transform into platforms for learning.
MARKO MILOVANOVIC is an architect, artist, journalist, and a committed educator. He is the founder of the knowledge and space production practice MYLOMARK and the educational conversational platform FREE SCHOOL OF.
This conversation with PETER CARROLL is part of "TEMPTATION OF INFLUENCE", an evolving research project and a video essay responding to the philosophy of architect SHANE DE BLACAM, initiated and supported by THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, LONDON and ARCHITECTURE AT THE EDGE, GALWAY. Supported by THE BRITISH COUNCIL and THE ARTS COUNCIL IRELAND. Produced by MYLOMARK PRODUCTION AND PUBLISHING and FREE SCHOOL OF.
In the coming months, FREE SCHOOL OF will present a series of conversations Marko conducted as part of this project.
The British Council will support showcasing the work at the AATE festival in spring/summer 2025.