M.Arch
2023
M.Arch
2022
Through a combination of studio and research modules, this RIAI-accredited, three-semester M Arch programme equips students to operate in the increasingly fluid worlds of architectural design, research and communication, and supports them to develop critical judgement and leadership for their future practice of architecture and architectural investigation
The 12 students whose work you see here developed comprehensive building design in one of the following thematic areas in Semester 2:
Architecture + Collectivity:
This studio worked with the children and staff of the Sligo Sudbury School, investigating how the democratic model of education practiced in the school might manifest itself in extensions proposed to a nineteenth-century school house. The unit explores participative modes of architectural design.
Dr Brian Ward, TU Dublin; Deirdre McMenamin, LiD Architects, Berlin; Dr Alice Casey, TAKA Architects
Architecture +Technology:
This studio integrated the writing of speculative fiction into their design process to imagine possible futures for a quarry and power station in Finglas, Dublin. Their architectural visions seek to transcend our current mechanised Industrial Age, and move towards a more biological understanding of our habitable environment.
Dr Marcin Wojcik, TU Dublin; Dr Manuel Kretzer, Hochschule Anhalt; Dr Sarah Sheridan, TU Dublin
Architecture + Landscape:
This studio proposed projects for Mulranny, Mayo County Council’s Decarbonising Zone. The unit investigates how a process of decarbonisation might support and improve the landscape and seascape of this rural area and the lives of the people who live there.
Dr Steve Larkin, TU Dublin; Helena Fitzgerald, Helena Fitzgerald Architects; Dr Kevin Donovan, TU Dublin
This work was extended in Semester 3 to produce the research folios accessible below. A dedicated portfolio site for the M Arch is available here: https://march-sabe.weebly.com/
Further information on the programme is available from kevin.donovan@tudublin.ie or here: https://www.tudublin.ie/study/postgraduate/courses/architecture/
Gabriella Brady - DESIGNING FOR THE SENSES AT SUDBURY SCHOOL
How can an observational study inform an architectural design process?
Roisin Feeny - DESIGNING FUTURES
Speculative design methods for climate issues at a Dublin quarry
Clare Creedon - DRAWING TIME
Design and representation of a time-cognisant architecture of reparability, for an era of depleting resources
Finbarr Kinmonth-Duerden - MODES OF WORKING
Case study of participative design practice, West Cork Architecture Network, Bandon
Oleksandra Kushnirenko - AN OFFICE OF THERMAL DELIGHT
An open thermodynamic approach to comfort for office retrofit
Suzana Laka - REVIVING THE DERELICT
Coexistence of man and the wilderness on a post-industrial site
Aine Logan - EXPERIENCING LANDSCAPE THROUGH WALKING
Developing a method of drawing that communicates the cultural context of the Bangor Trail
Helen McFadden - ON COMPLEX ORDINARINESS
Construing time through constructing a climate-registered architecture set within an old-world infrastructural landscape
Sean Nolan - ASSEMBLY AND TECTONICS
Utilising localised timber in an intelligent way to create a low-energy, bespoke architecture
Philip O'Brien - PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SPACE
Creating community curtilage in Mulranny, Co Mayo
Cormac O'Mahoney - PEDAGOGY OF PLACE
Creative re-use architecture for an experimental urban school in Sligo town.
Caoimhe Power - SOLAR FARM FOR MULRANNY
An architect’s methodology for equipping and empowering the community as custodians of a solar landscape
Staff & Collaborators(Since Sep '21)
Dermot Boyd (SABE)
Deborah Brennan (Multidisciplinary Technologies)
Barnabas Calder (University of Liverpool)
Hugh Campbell (UCD Architecture)
David Capener (Ulster University)
Jim Coady (Coady Architects)
Peter Crowley (PAC Studios)
Noel Brady (SABE)
Jordana Corrigan (SABE)
Miriam Delaney (SABE)
Gerald Doyle (SABE)
Kevin Donovan (SABE – MArch co-ordinator)
Emma Geoghegan (SABE)
Roisin Guilfoyle (TU Dublin Library)
Helena Fitzgerald (Helena Fitzgerald Architects)
Manuel Kretzer (Dessau Department of Design)
Tara Kennedy (CCAE)
Anne Kelly (NCAD)
Michael McGarry (QUB/McGarry Ni Eanaigh Architects)
John McLaughlin (CCAE)
Kirk McCormack (SABE)
Colm Moore (QUB/Clancy Moore Architects)
Peter Maybury (TU Dublin)
Deirdre McMenamin (LID Architects)
Juan Morillas (BDP Research Unit)
David O Connor (SABE)
Sarah O’Dwyer (SABE)
Steve Larkin (SABE)
Plattenbau Architects (Berlin)
Odran Reid (SABE)
Anna Ryan (University of Limerick)
Dougal Sheridan (Dessau Department of Design)
Sarah Sheridan (SABE)
Elizabeth Shotton (UCD Architecture)
Samuel Vardy (MTU/A Place of their Own)
Marcin Wojcik (SABE)
Jo van den Berghe (KU Leuven)