DAYLIGHT TALKS
FEBRUARY 2022
On the 22nd February Níall will be giving a talk titled Circling a Star for the Daylight Talks by Velux.
The `Daylight Talks´ are targeting students or architecture and younger professionals and they are exploring the significance of natural light in architecture. The talks present exciting and prominent architects and educators working consciously and qualitatively with daylight in their projects and educational programs; what has inspired? how has spaces been planned with light to inhabit and cherish? the important learnings? and what is the advice to students and younger professionals?
AIAUK 2021 DESIGN AWARDS WINNER
JUNE 2021
Magdalene College Library has won in the Professional Practice Medium Sized Projects category at this year’s AIAUK Design Awards. For over 20 years, The American Institute of Architects UK Chapter Excellence in Design Awards programme has proven highly valued by architects as they confer trans-Atlantic recognition for design excellence. Professional entries are sought from UK-based architects or designers, for projects anywhere in the world, and Architects or designers based outside the UK for projects completed in the UK.
Acknowledging that architecture is a corpus of inherited ideas, Alternative Histories invited more than 80 contemporary practices in the UK and Europe to imagine an exchange with architects from the past. Each office was assigned a different drawing from the collection of Drawing Matter. The architects were then tasked with making a model that not only responded to what they saw, but envisioned an alternative future for the original drawing while adhering to the constraints of the project.