What's On Your Desk?

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What's On Your Desk is a student-led podcast coming to you from the UCD School of Architecture. Through a series of conversations between students and practitioners we will explore the vast methods used and references employed in the making of architecture. Thank you to Gareth Smyth for editing th…

UCD Student Curators

  • Sep 25, 2019 LATEST EPISODE
  • infrequent NEW EPISODES
  • 51m AVG DURATION
  • 8 EPISODES


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Emmett Scanlon

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2019 47:34


Emmett Scanlon is a practicing architect, a writer and curator. He also currently is head of the final year of the masters in architecture program in UCD. In this episode we discuss with Emmett the importance of communication in architecture, his experience assisting in the curation of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale and also where he sees his practice going forward. Interviewers: Kevin Quinlan, James Flaus and Laura Kenny If you like the podcast don't forget to give us a rating and a like. Follow us @ucdstudentcurators on instagram and twitter. Edited by: Garath Smyth

Peter Cody

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2019 49:19


Peter Cody is co - director of the Dublin based architecture practice Boyd Cody Architects as well as teaching first year of architecture in UCD. In this episode Peter discusses with Kevin the evolution of the building fabric of Dublin, Peters time working with Alvaro Siza and what he has taken from his recently completed PHD titled Practical Fictions. If you like the podcast don't forget to give us a rating and a like. Follow us @ucdstudentcurators on instagram and twitter. Edited by: Garath Smyth

Alice Clancy

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2019 40:25


  Alice Clancy - Architectural Photographer In this episode James Flaus, Laura Kenny and Kevin Quinlan are in conversation with Alice Clancy. Alice Clancy is an architectural photographer as well as teaching here in UCD. She was assistant to the curators of the 2018 Venice Architectural Biennale.  If you like the podcast don't forget to give us a rating and a like. Follow us @ucdstudentcurators on instagram and twitter. Edited by: Garath Smyth 

O'Donnell Tuomey

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2019 72:07


In this episode James Flaus and I are in conversation with Shelia O'Donnell and John Toumey of O'Donnell and Toumey architects. We discuss their time as students in UCD as well as their experience teaching in the school. We also discuss on a broad level their approach to the work in the their practice. After we discuss with two fifth years, Cian McKenna and Dawn Clinton, the workshop they ran as part of the UCD Masterclass Lecture series.

Flores y Prats

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2019 45:29


In this episode James Flaus, Laura Kenny and I are in conversation with Eva Prats and Richardo Flores of Flores i Prats architects, a Barcelona based studio . They were visiting UCD School of Architecture as part of the UCD Masters Of Architecture Masterclass lecture series. They gave a public lecture and then the following day ran a workshop with the masters students. They toke time out the workshop to discuss with us the skills they were looking to teach the students and how that relates to their own work. The next lecture in the series is with O Donnell and Toumey Architects and is on the 28th of MArch in UCD and we will release a podcast episode to correspond with it. Tickets for the lecture: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/o-donnell-tuomey-ucd-master-of-architecture-lecture-series-2-tickets-58011163953 7 Article by Peter Molloy on their visit: http://architectureireland.ie/paper-memories-flores-prats

Michael Pike

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2019 43:46


Michael Pike - GKMP Architects Images on @ucdstudentcurators Instagram In this episode James Flaus and I are in conversation with Michael Pike. Michael Pike teaches here in UCD as well as co-directing the Dublin based practice GKMP architects. The practice primarily deals with housing and public space. We discuss these interests with Michael as well as learning about the role of his drawing in the process of the creation of space. During the discussion we also make reference to papers authored by Michael, in particular 'Drawing Rooms', originally published in the The Irish Review (51). https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/bitstream/10197/7527/1/Drawing_Rooms_Michael_Pike.pdf If you like the podcast don't forget to give us a rating and a like. Follow us @ucdstudentcurators on instagram and twitter. Edited by: Garath Smyth

Grafton Architects

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2019 64:03


In this episode we are in conversation with Yvonne Farrell and Shelly McNamara of Grafton architects. They joined us in Richview for a student led event to celebrate them being awarded the Ulysses medal from UCD for their achievements in architecture. Previous recipients of the award include the architect Kevin Roche. In this episode Yvonne and Shelly discuss with Eoghan and Kate, two students here in Richview, about their time studying architecture, how their work and practice has evolved and some of the challenges that will be facing students as they enter the profession of architecture. Thank you to Gareth Smyth for editing the podcast.

Tom O' Brien

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2018 46:56


In this episode Tom O' Brien discusses his work method and his position in architecture with Kevin, James and Laura. Tom is a studio tutor in first year of UCD Architecture as well as being a practicing architect. Tom was recently shortlisted as one of the emerging talents in architecture by the architectural review. His work so far has been small scale domestic extensions in the city and one off housing in the country. In this episode we discuss the unique use of a traditional material palette in Toms' work and the source for his architectural ideas. Thank you to Gareth Smyth for editing the podcast.

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