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 ...
ICS Fundamentals Of Concrete Technology Course
The Irish Concrete Society recently launched their 2018 Fundamentals of Concrete Technology course. Commencing on the 7 September in UCD the course provides participants with essential information on concrete technology and construction. The programme includes two half-days of lectures and a ...
UCD International Design Competition Announces 6 Shortlisted Proposals
University College Dublin’s Future Campus project focuses on enlivening and enhancing the University’s extensive campus, creating a highly-visible and welcoming entrance precinct, as well as a charismatic new architectural addition, the Centre for Creative Design. UCD & Malcolm Reading Consultants announce 6 shortlisted ...
Remembering Vincent Scully
Date: Thursday 12 April, 6pm – 8pm Venue: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 Vincent Scully was perhaps the most revered professor of art and architecture in the United States. The Yale Architectural historian died last ...
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: Stephen Fai
Date: Friday 3 November 2017 1:10pm Planning Studio 3, UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy, Richview, UCD Speaker: Stephen Fai, Carleton Immersive Media Studio The UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy presents a research lectures series ...
Review – This Must Be The Place (We’ve Waited Years to Love)
By chance, just before visiting the UCD MArch exhibition I read the November 1974 issue of the Architectural Review ‘A Future for Dublin’, with it’s Townscape in Action proposals for Dublin. The theme running through that seminal journal issue, of ...
Book Launch at the RIAI: One Hundred & One Hosannas for Architecture by Shane O’Toole
The RIAI will be hosting the launch of One Hundred & One Hosannas for Architecture; A Chronicle of Architectural Culture in Millennial Ireland, a new book by Shane O’Toole. The publication of the book was sponsored by the RIAI, ARUP ...
Yvonne Farrell + Shelley McNamara, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara are the directors of Grafton Architects, established in 1978. Both are graduates of University College Dublin, fellows of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, International Honorary Fellows of the Royal Institute of British ...
RIAI Honours Dr Ellen Rowley and Shane O’Toole
On Thursday 24 February, 2017 the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI), the regulatory and support body for architects in Ireland, presented two esteemed awards at its Honorary Fellowship Lectures, which took place at the RIAI headquarters on ...