Get Real. The discussion on education in architecture is again a rather lively one, at least in the United Kindgom. Dezeen, the popular online platform of architecture and design, is but one home of this discussion with architects now regularly ...
Every Piece A Master
Last evening, I was invited to speak at an exhibition opening. The exhibition, SHOW OFF, is, in the words of its curators, a sample of sketches, drawings, and models made by the 2019 class of the Masters of Architecture program ...
No Ideas but in Things – O’Donnell + Tuomey
Thursday, 28 March, saw architects and educators Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey deliver – to a full lecture theatre – a talk about their work both in practice and academia, exploring their beginnings, their comprehensive portfolio, and the decorated path ...
Forever, more. Words for O’Donnell + Tuomey
In May 2019, Professors John Tuomey and Sheila O’Donnell, of O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects, will retire from teaching at University College Dublin. This, after forty years of continuous engagement with the staff, student, and studio culture of the School of ...
Gender – An Architectural Agenda
Image credit: Chloe Loh. The Gender: An Architectural Agenda project has come to a close after 6 months in the works. The exhibition that was on display at the RIAI has been taken down and packed away to UCD Richview ...
UCD School of Architecture Golden & Diamond Jubilee Reunion Celebration 2018
Date: Friday 21 September 2018 Individual ticket: €50 This September UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy invites you to join your classmates and mark the occasion of your Golden & Diamond Jubilee Reunion – please book below. The schedule will ...
Finalists shortlisted for UCD Future Campus architectural design competition
Four international architectural design teams from the United States, one from the Netherlands and one from Ireland have been shortlisted for University College Dublin’s Future Campus – International Design Competition. The competition attracted entries from 98 teams across 28 countries. ...
Talking Our Way Towards Change
Image credit: Stephen Gotting. In last month’s ‘Women in Architecture’ issue of the Architectural Review, Professor Jane Rendell outlined ‘Collectivity’ as the first of five qualities that “might characterise a specifically feminist approach to critical spatial practice.” In another essay, this ...
1968+50
Fifty years on from the broad strokes of student political activism across Europe in 1968, a self-perpetuated drive for student activation is stirring at UCD Architecture, led by students from its Masters programme. Unfortunately student activism tends to be a ...
UCD APEP Research Lecture Series: Francesco Pilla
15 November 2017 Francesco Pilla, UCD APEP Approaches to urban and spatial reasoning 1:10pm Planning Studio 3, Richview, UCD Francesco Pilla’s area of expertise is geospatial analysis and modelling of environmental dynamics, which involves the development of environmental pollution models ...