Main entry:

O'Donnell + Tuomey.

Title & Author:

Space for architecture : the work of O'Donnell + Tuomey.

Publication:

London : Artifice Books on Architecture, ©2014.

Description:

223 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Studio Life -- Courtyards -- + Cherry Orchard Primary School -- + Sean O'Casey Community Centre -- The World Outside -- + Timberyard Social Housing -- London Times -- + The Photographers' Gallery -- Subtraction and Addition -- + Central European University Budapest -- Venice Excursions -- + Transformation of an Institution -- + The Lives of Spaces -- + Vessel -- Building Ground -- + Howth House -- + Lewis Glucksman Gallery University College Cork -- Cat's Cradles -- + Irish Language Cultural Centre -- + The Lyric Theatre -- + Saw Swee Hock Student Centre London School of Economics -- Future Perfect.

Summary:

A medium-sized Dublin-based practice, O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects have been involved with urban design, educational and cultural buildings, houses and housing projects in Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK. They have recently won competitions for two key projects in London: the Photographers Gallery and the London School of Economics Students' Centre. Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey, who both teach at University College Dublin and lecture internationally, are the authors of this book. They look at the way in which different geographical, social and political influences have shaped their latest works and approach to architecture generally. The book is divided into eight sections, each dealing with a different aspect of the practice's concerns: Studio, Courtyards, The World Outside, London Times, Subtraction and Addition, Venice Excursions, Building Ground and Cats Cradles. Specific photographic documentation has been produced for the purpose of inclusion in this book, so as to evoticatively capture its essence. In the chapter dedicated to their numerous Venician excursions, Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey explain their on-going relation to the city's (as well as to its region's) heritage and contemporary culture. Not only has the practice represented Ireland at the 2004 International Venice Architecture Biennale, but their multiple 'encounters' with the works of Aldo Rossi, Carlo Scarpa, and Andrea Palladio, amongst others, have deeply influenced their work over the years. This is seen in elements such as the responsiveness of their buildings' forms to their sites, as well as by an interest in materiality, manifest in their facades as well as in their attention to detail and fascination for craft manufacturing processes.

ISBN:

9781908967473
1908967471

Subject:

O'Donnell, Sheila, 1953-
Tuomey, John, 1954-
O'Donnell, Sheila,
Tuomey, John,
O'Donnell + Tuomey.
Architecture Ireland History.
Architecture Irlande Histoire.
Architecture History. Ireland.
History.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture
Ireland

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Tuomey, John, 1954-
O'Donnell, Sheila, 1953-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 310197
Call No.: BIB 255295
Status: Available