It is the End Of the Year Show 2020, Part 3, a look back at some key moments in architecture and design and the world in which they operate in Ireland in 2020. In this third episode Emmett talks to Michael Hayes about architecture culture in 2020. Having to move online had an impact on the way architecture is produced, discussed, taught and experienced. Nevertheless last year saw new forms of communication and engagement emerging, new groups in architecture forming, new books arriving and some exhibitions waiting.

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Michael Hayes is an architect and Editor, of Architecture Ireland, the journal of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland.

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Music is by Sinead Finegan, played by the Delmaine String Quartet (Philip Dodd, leader).

The podcast was recorded on Zoom in January 2020.

It is the End Of the Year Show 2020, Part 2, a look back at some key moments in architecture and design and the world in which they operate in Ireland in 2020. In the second of four short episodes Emmett Scanlon talks to Miriam Delaney, architect and lecturer at TUD, Dublin. Miriam identifies some key initiatives, programs and events that took place in Ireland in 2020 that related to the town in Ireland. Photo is by Paul Tierney, courtesy of the photographer.

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Miriam Delaney is an architect and lecturer in the Dublin School of Architecture, TUDublin. She has lectured and written widely on the issues facing Irish towns and has most recently been involved in political advocacy and community engagement in the field of rural town regeneration.

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Music is by Sinead Finegan, played by the Delmaine String Quartet (Philip Dodd, leader).

The podcast was recorded on Zoom in December 2020.

It is the End Of the Year Show 2020, a look back at some key moments in architecture and design and the world in which they operate in Ireland in 2020. In the first of four short episodes Emmett Scanlon talks to Dr. Lorcan Sirr, Senior Lecturer in Housing at TUD, Dublin. Lorcan identifies some key events that took place in housing in Ireland in 2020,  from the formation of a new Government, to the arrival of a seventh Minister, to the ban on co-housing, the further financialisation of housing and a ray of hope from Europe.

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Music is by Sinead Finegan, played by the Delmaine String Quartet (Philip Dodd, leader).

The podcast was recorded on Zoom.

This week host Emmett Scanlon talks to Neasa Hourigan. Neasa is the Green Party TD for Dublin Central.  Neasa is Green Party Finance & Health Spokesperson and Chair of Policy Council for the party.. Neasa also studied architecture at TUD Dublin, did a Masters by research in University College Dublin , worked in practice in Dublin, and then went to Queens University in Belfast where she developed a specific interest in community engagement, working with students of architecture.

Neasa is member of a party which is, at the time of recording, in Government in Ireland and since being elected for the first time as a member of the Dail in early 2020, Neasa Hourigan has had several moments when she has stood squarely against the politically whipped policies of her party. In a pretty wide ranging conversation Nessa talks about her move from architecture into politics and how that happened at a personal and professional level. We talk about education in architecture and learning how to put it all on the table for debate; Nessa talks about forming policy and programs for Government; We talk bollards and doorsteps as a means to change hearts and minds, what campaigning for Repeal does to a person; And of course the conversation turns to housing, the value of a referendum on the right to house and if the Department of Housing is fit for purpose.

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Neasa Hourigan is the Green Party TD for Dublin Central (formally councillor for Cabra-Glasnevin). Neasa is Green Party Finance & Health Spokesperson and Chair of Policy Council. She has a professional background as a specialist in creating sustainable communities and was a university lecturer in environmental development and design. She and her family have lived in Cabra, Dublin 7 for 15 years.

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Music is by Sinead Finegan, played by the Delmaine String Quartet (Philip Dodd, leader).

The podcast was recorded on Zoom.

In this episode Emmett Scanlon talks to Conor Sreenan. Conor is the Director of Strategy & Design at Grangegorman Development Agency. Conor's work involves being involved with a dizzying array of design and building projects across this part of Dublin. The Grangegorman Development area is a significant part of Dublin - it stretches from the Phoenix park in the West, to Dorset Street in the west, into Cabra and Phibsborough on the North and down to the river Liffey quays in the south. Much of the building work though is centred on the old Grangegorman Campus hospital and a whole series of new buildings for a range of uses is under construction there. Conor moved to the Agency from Heneghan Peng, one of Ireland’s most well know architecture practices, they are the architects who worked on the recent refurbishment of the National Gallery and the last project Conor worked on at that practice was the Museum of Palestine. Avid listenings to the podcast would know Conor wrote a piece about that building t under the Building Me Building You strand of this podcast, and that text was called Building Palestine in which he beautifully sets the scene for the construction site of this project, in Palestine. Conor talks about the move from so-called private to public practice and indeed this anchors much of what we discuss, this artificial binary between the two strands of architecture endeavour and the idea of working for the public good. We start though with the text, and I asked Conor why he wrote it and what it meant.

The podcast was recorded on zoom. The bin collection is real.

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Conor Sreenan graduated from University College Dublin in 2001, with an honours degree in Architecture. In 2006 he received a Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Practice and Management, since which time he has been a registered architect.

Following graduation he joined O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects as a Project Architect to oversee the design and construction of the Press Auditorium at Dáil Éireann, Irish Government Buildings, Dublin. This project received awards from the Architectural Association of Ireland (2003) & the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (2003).

In 2004 he accepted a position with Heneghan Peng Architects, remaining there for 13 years. In that time he led teams across public and private sector projects, including the delivery (2016) of the Palestinian Museum, Ramallah, West Bank of Palestine. The project was a recipient of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland President’s Award (2017). The Museum was listed for the Royal Institute of British Architects International Prize (2018), and in 2019 the Museum received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

In Spring 2018 he was appointed as a Director of the Grangegorman Development Agency, with responsibility for Strategy and Design.

As part one of the diverse Agency team, and with a variety of design teams and building contractors, he supports the implementation of the Grangegorman Masterplan (c.30ha) for multiple stakeholders. These stakeholders include the Health Service Executive, Technological University Dublin, the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, and utimately the existing and emerging communities within the Grangegorman neighbourhood.

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Music is by Sinead Finegan, played by the Delmaine String Quartet (Philip Dodd, leader).

The podcast was recorded on Zoom.

In this episode host Emmett Scanlon talks to Sheila O Donnell, one of Ireland’s most celebrated architects. With John Tuomey, Sheila has been running their practice O Donnell+Tuomey in Dublin for over 30 years.

The practice have designed and built theatres, cinemans, primary schools, university buildings, libraries, student centres, bridges, art galleries - It is impossible to summarise there their achievement and influence on architecture culture and discourse in Ireland and around the world, and in 2015 the pair were awarded the Royal Gold Medal in London one of architecture’s highest awards.

The conversation with Sheila though was triggered by the death earlier this year of writer, cartographer and publishers Tim Robinson and Mairead Robinson who were based in Roundstone in Galway. Sheila and John were good friends of Mairead and Time and Sheila is now involved in the campaign to hold this house and its place for future use. During the conversation Sheila talks about the house as she had experienced it, what it was like, and from there the conversation moves to thinking about houses as dynamic, unfixed things, to Tim’s own writing on the house, to working with old buildings, to theatre design, to how designing housing would be a pinnacle in Sheila’s career and more.

Sheila was intrigued though by the question of what it is that buildings do al day, and it is right there, that the conversation began.

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O’Donnell + Tuomey is a studio-based practice, with offices in Dublin, Cork and London. Committed to the craft and culture of architecture, they have been involved with urban design, cultural, social and educational projects at home and abroad. The practice has an international reputation for its engagement with complex urban situations and sensitive landscapes. They have completed schools and university buildings, theatres and cinemas, community centres and social housing, art galleries and libraries in Ireland, the UK and on the European mainland. Winners of more than 120 awards, recent buildings include the Glucksman Gallery Cork, Timberyard Housing Dublin, Irish Language Centre Derry, Sean O’Casey Community Centre Dublin, Lyric Theatre Belfast, Photographers’ Gallery London, LSE Student Centre and the Central European University Budapest. They have exhibited six times at the Venice Architecture Biennale, with installations which advance their research into the useful beauty and poetic purpose of architecture, exploring areas of overlap with other art forms.

Sheila O’Donnell graduated from University College Dublin in 1976, when she moved to London. In 1980 she was awarded an MA in Environmental Design from the Royal College of Art London.  She worked for Spence and Webster, Colquhoun and Miller and James Stirling before returning to Dublin to teach at UCD and set up her practice. She co-founded O’Donnell + Tuomey in 1988. She is a Practice Professor in Architecture at University College Dublin. She has taught and lectured at schools of Architecture in Europe, Japan and the USA, including the AA, Cambridge, Princeton and Harvard GSD. Her watercolours have been exhibited in the Royal Academy and the Royal Irish Academy. In 2009 she was elected a member of Aosdána, the affiliation of Irish artists.

In 2015 she was joint recipient with John Tuomey of the RIBA Royal Gold Medal and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Brunner Prize, both awarded in recognition of a lifetime’s work.

Sheila was named Architect of the Year at the 2019 Women in Architecture (WIA) Awards for her work on the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.

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Music is by Sinead Finegan, played by the Delmaine String Quartet (Philip Dodd, leader). 

The podcast was recorded on Zoom.

In this episode host Emmett Scanlon talk to Sean Finegan, a comedian who is one part of the very successful and very funny comedy trio Foil Arms and Hogg. Now together for 12 years, the men found each other and began working together in the concrete bowels of the Belfield campus in University College Dublin. At the time Sean was studying architecture but on the Richview campus, a twenty minute walk or so from the drama society where Sean tells me he found himself hanging out more that he thought he should, choosing drama over drawing, strutting over structures.

Recorded from a room he recently built at the back of his house with architect Ryan Kennihan, Sean talks about his time studying architecture, working with an architect on the design of his house, he recalls the atmosphere of design crits in college, how to be critical to be kind when working with other people and how Dermot Bannon just might be untouchable when it comes to sketch comedy.

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Music by Sinead Finegan, used with permission. Played by the Delmaine String Quartet, recorded in Trinity College Dublin.

The conversation was recorded online.

In this episode Emmett Scanlon talks to Hari Phillips in London. Hari tells his side of the story about one housing project he and his practice completed in 2018 on the Kipling Estate in London. It is a fascinating story of community initiative, ambition, local authority support and clear commitment and dedication by the architects and all involved to make solid, sustainable housing that felt like it was alway there but would ensure the resident community would thrive long into the future.

Hari co-founded Bell Phillips Architects with Tim Bell in 2004 after winning an international design competition to carry out a major housing estate refurbishment project in East London. The practice has developed a strong reputation for working with public sector clients to deliver outstanding housing and community buildings, with particular experienced in delivering schemes through collaborative community and stakeholder engagement. One such project is Marklake Court, a community-led affordable housing scheme built on the site of an underused garage block in Southwark, heralded by The Guardian as "a beacon for the delivery of low cost housing across the capital”.

Music is by Sinead Finnegan, players by the Delmaine Sting Quartet. This conversation was recorded online.

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In this episode Emmett Scanlon talks to Hari Phillips in London. Hari tells his side of the story about one housing project he and his architecture practice completed in 2018 on the Kipling Estate in London. It is a fascinating story of community initiative, ambition, local authority support and clear commitment and dedication by the architects and all involved to make solid, sustainable housing that felt like it was alway there but would ensure the resident community would thrive long into the future.

Hari co-founded Bell Phillips Architects with Tim Bell in 2004 after winning an international design competition to carry out a major housing estate refurbishment project in East London. The architecture practice has developed a strong reputation for working with public sector clients to deliver outstanding housing and community buildings, with particular experienced in delivering schemes through collaborative community and stakeholder engagement. One such project is Marklake Court, a community-led affordable housing scheme built on the site of an underused garage block in Southwark, heralded by The Guardian as "a beacon for the delivery of low cost housing across the capital”.

Music is by Sinead Finnegan, played by the Delmaine Sting Quartet. 

This conversation was recorded online.

In this episode, Emmett Scanlon talks to Jeanette Lowe. Jeanette is a photographer based in Dublin. The conversation is about housing and the people that live in it, specifically Pearse House,  a housing scheme designed by Herbert Simms and built between 1935-40 in Dublin. Jeanette begins by talking about her work as part of RTE Illuminations, in which she photographed what she calls, the "invisible front line", workers who have gone out to work right through lockdown and Covid-19 and who also live in Pearse Flats.

Jeanette  was born and lives in Dublin, Ireland. Her work has been exhibited in Ireland and internationally and is held in Irish and international collections. Her artistic practice explores the relationship between people, place and culture with an emphasis on communities in inner-city Dublin. She is currently Artist in Residence at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles St., Dublin and continues to work on her personal projects.

Music is by Irish composer Sinead Finnegan and is used with permission. Copyright reserved. The piece, Précis, is written for string quartet and is performed by the Delmaine String Quartet. The piece was recorded live in the Chapel in Trinity, December 2018 at a concert hosted by Mellow Tonics choir. Due to Covid-19 restrictions this conversation was recorded online.

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