McCULLOUGH MULVIN ARCHITECTS — WORK: Buildings and Projects, 1983-2003

ed. Niall McCullough

intro by Wiel Arets; essay by Raymund Ryan

ISBN 978 0946846 252     144 pages    21.5 x 24 cm    345 illus (incl 225 col) 

This monograph on one of Ireland’s leading architectural practices features many of their major projects and buildings: Ussher Library, Trinity College; Waterford City Library; Virus Reference Laboratory, UCD; Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo; Douglas Hyde Gallery 2, Dublin; Temple Bar Gallery & Studios; Black Church Print Studio; Temple Bar Music Centre; Sligo Courthouse; Dungloe District Offices; Tubbercurry Civic Offices & Library; Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Hall; Siena Monastery, Drogheda; Grafton Street Apartments; Louis Lane Mews, Dublin; Square House, Dublin; Abbey Theatre.

EXTRACT

"Industrial premises refurbished with the introduction of High Modernist aesthetics. A Victorian school building radically renovated using tactics of collage and pinwheel-planning. A voluminous new library grafted into the nation’s most beautiful university campus. The work of Niall McCullough and Valerie Mulvin has been marked by its appreciation and reuse of existing architectural fabric together with the simultaneous emergence of idealistic spatial form. Architecture, therefore, both empirical and deductive. Architecture as re-presentation and invention. An Irish architecture cognisant of contemporary European culture. Temple Bar Gallery & Studios in the midst of Dublin’s Temple Bar, the Model Arts & Niland Gallery on its terraced hillside in Sligo, and, most recently, the prismatic Ussher Library overlooking the urbane parkland of Trinity College Dublin are emblematic of McCullough Mulvin’s concerns in just over a decade of impressive achievement ... McCullough and Mulvin do not shirk from the intellectual and urbanistic potential of architecture. To embrace this potential is their responsibility as critical architects in Ireland today."

— from the essay by Raymund Ryan