O'Donnell & Tuomey's Belfast Architecture Dissertation

ODonnell & Tuomeys Belfast Architecture - Dissertation Example instrument panel of Contents Acknowledgements..2 Introduction...............................................................................................................3 Context...7 speech Theatre. A mass of Light and modernism ......................................8 Influences and Philosophy of ODonnell and Tuomey. ................................16 Aims, goals and ideals of ODonnell & Tuomey.................................................19 Conclusion.................................................................................................................24 References..................................................................................................................26 Introduction Dublin based architects Sheila ODonnell and John Tuomey , who have been practicing together since 1991, have a advertent outlook and attitude of how they ply their craft, that can be summarized as continuity and re newal, which will be the compositors case of this paper. This dissertation as a critical analysis of the Lyric Theatre will examine ODonnell + Tuomeys architectural journey. I will re-trace their influences, attitudes and examine values and ideals as app arent in their 2007 Lyric Theatre in Belfast. ODonnell + Tuomey appreciate tradition, and that traditions ought to be brought into the 21st Century and translated in order to retain meaning in the present day. This is how they approach and interpret each design brief. The inspiration of Aldo Rossi to Irish architects, who acknowledged that in Venice, where although unity may be interested in whether a building is by Palladio or Longhena, it is first and perpetually the stones of Venice,1 is also an inspiration to ODonnell + Tuomey. They, too, believe that the materials of the land are the materials that should be used in their buildings, which is why, for instance, their Lyric Theatre, which is the subject of this dissertation, u ses the bricks which are commonly found in buildings throughout Dublin. On returning from five eld in London in 1982 where Sheila ODonnell completed a masters degree at The proud College of Art, and both she and John Tuomey worked with James Stirling Sheila ODonnell and John Tuomey returned in search of a subject, married, bought a reside and thought about how they might go in search of the soul of Irish architecture. Their position as studio teachers at UCD has involved not only educating a generation of Irish architects that are now gaining international recognition (Tom De Paor being the most prominent) they could also be said to have rescue Irish architectural culture from the cults of technology and critical theory that afflict British architectural education. ODonnell and Tuomey architects (OD+T) can reasonably be considered to have cared for the soul of Irish architecture over the ult few decades.2 It is impossible to think about the past two decades of Irish architec ture without considering ODonnell + Tuomey. and so without their involvement with Group 91, alongside Grafton architects, Paul Keogh and others, there would be no Temple Bar or Lyric Theatre, and, he suggests, no internationally recognisable image of modern Ireland for young