Beyond Pebbledash is both a book and a wider design initiative whose creative aim is to promote a critical conversation on the future of Dublin urbanism. It was published in the autumn of 2014 in conjunction with a temporary installation of a public sculpture in Clarke Square, National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin. The installation, also titled Beyond Pebbledash, involved the erection of atypicalDublin pebble-dash house (scale 1:1) to include a reconstructed pebble-dash façade and steel skeletal frame construction of its walls, stairs, doors, rear fenestration, ceilings and roof. Beyond Pebbledash provokes questions in the mind of the reader: What have we built? And, critically, why have we built it here? It endeavours to encourage us to look beyond the surface meaning of any built landscape, to peel back the façade, to enter a different, engaging and challenging realm of questioning. How do we read the built environment? What can we see beyond the literal structure