Therefore: Dysart

Photography by Shantanu Starick. Architecture by Tom de Paor.

Photographer Shantanu Starick produces a publication called Therefore, each volume presenting a photographic essay that focuses on a single architectural project.

Starick says that these books are “not conventional monographs; they are independently published, free from external constraints, allowing for a rare, unfiltered exchange. Each volume emerges from a direct dialogue, shaping a record that is both intimate and critical. Place, design, and occupation remain difficult to comprehend, yet the project is irresistible.”

One ‘irresistible’ project captured by Starick’s lens is the home of the architect Tom de Paor, overlooking the Irish Sea in County Wicklow, Ireland. Punningly entitled “Dysart’, this wonderful combination of house and garden is built upon an old builder’s yard, itself an occupation of an abandoned farmstead.

Starick’s images capture both the extraordinary and ordinary aspects of this ongoing architectural adventure and we present a selection of them below.

To learn more about Starick’s work and the Therefore publication please visit his website here.

To learn more about Dysart visit Tom de Paor’s website here.

NOTES

Many thanks to Shantanu Starick for his help in compiling this post and the book competition that accompanied it.

All photography © Shantanu Starick.

Site plan by dePaor.

Posted 24th July 2026.