EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE COUNTRY HOUSE
23rd Annual Historic Houses International Conference
Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates, Maynooth University, 19-20 May 2025
Architects have always strived to build country houses that would function efficiently, comfortably and healthily, an aspiration memorably captured in Le Corbusier’s dictum that ‘a house is a machine for living in’. They were domestic residences and places of employment, with a broad base of staff tending to an elite few. The 23rd Historic Houses Conference, which will take place on 19-20 May 2025, will look at the ways in which country houses were designed, modernised, managed, financed, powered, provisioned and occupied with a view to being a functioning communal unit.
Read the full conference programme here: CSHIHE 2025 conference programme Final
