Niall McLaughlin
Principal
Níall McLaughlin was born in Geneva in 1962. He was educated in Dublin and studied architecture at University College Dublin between 1979 and 1984. He worked for Scott Tallon Walker for four years and established his own practice in London in 1990. He designs buildings for education, culture, health, religious worship and housing. He won Young British Architect of the Year in 1998 and received the RIBA Charles Jencks Award for Simultaneous Contribution to Theory and Practice in 2016. Níall was elected an Aosdána Member for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Ireland and as a Royal Academician in the Category of Architecture in 2019. In 2020 he was awarded an Honorary MBE for Services to Architecture and has been shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2013, 2015 and 2018 winning the Stirling Prize in 2022 for the New Library, Magdalene College.
Níall exhibited in the Venice Biennale in 2016 and 2018, co-curated the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition Architecture Rooms in 2022 with Rana Begum.
Níall is Professor of Architectural Practice at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. He was a visiting professor at the University of California Los Angeles from 2012-2013, and was appointed Lord Norman Foster Visiting Professor of Architecture at Yale for 2014-2015.