Irénée Scalbert,  AA Dip. RIBA
Address: School of Architecture
University of Limerick
Limerick
Telephone: 00 353 61 213438
e-mail: irenee.scalbert@googlemail.com

AR4035/4036 History and Theory

Architecture and its relation to nature

Craftsmanship and design

The architecture plan

Architectural criticism

ARTICLES

“A Peopled Landscape”, AA Files 47, Spring 2013

“Powers of Mind: Stirling at the Clore.” Harvard Design Magazine 35 (2012): 40-45

“The Architect as Bricoleur.” Candide 4 (Fall 2011): 69-88.

“The Perfect Worlds of Ecology.” Field 4, University of Sheffield (2011): 11-16.

“Faux-Amis.” (on architecture criticism) OASE 81 (2010): 59-64.

“James Stirling et l’Art du “Monumentalement Petit.” Criticat 4 (September 2009): 60-73.

“Parklife.” AA Files 59 (2009): 56-59.

“James Stirling.” OASE 79 (2009): 33-42.

“Making Space for Fashion: Stanton Williams’s 1987 Commission for Issey Miyake”, Harvard Design Magazine 29 (Fall/Winter 2008-9): 22-28.

“Invention and the Market.” OASE 74 (2007): 136-145.

“The City as a Solid.” Defining Space conference, UCD, Dublin (October 2007).

“London.” L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui 365 (July-August 2006): 32-41.

“The Value of Common Sense.” L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui 362 (January-February 2005): 58-61.

“A World of Differences or a Different World?” OASE 67 (autumn 2005): 32-37, 104-108.

“The City of Small Things.” Building Material 12 (Dublin) (autumn 2004): 4-7.

“A Real Living Contact with the Things Themselves: Landscape Painters and Architects, 1600-1850.” AA Files 50 (spring 2004): 20-35.

“The New Architecture: The Yokohama International Port Terminal.” Casabella 708 (February 2003): 30-41 (English translation 109-113.)

“Architecture at the End of History.” Contemporary (February 2002): 58-63.

“Interview with Tony Fretton”, a+t 18 (Autumn 2001): 150-157.

“Caruso St John: Galerie d’Art Moderne: Walsall, Grande Bretagne”, Le Moniteur Architecture-AMC 107 (May 2000): 38-44.

“Parallel of Life and Art.” Daidalos 75 (May 2000): 52-65.

“The Rococo Revolution.” AA Files 39 (autumn 1999): 10-20.

“Towards a Formless Architecture: The House of the Future by A+P Smithson.” Archis (September 1999): 34-47.

“Caruso St John and the Art of Building.” A+U 343 (April 1999): 68-73.

“Townscape Fights Back: A Report from Holland.” AA Files 38 (spring 1999): 67-74.

“The Value of Objectivity.” OASE 49/50 (1998): 12-23.

“Utopia Plc.: A View from London.” (on Dutch architecture) Archis (September 1998): 10-16.

“The Value of Plenty.” arq 7 (spring 1997): 18-25.

“Siedlung Halen: Between Standards and Individuality.” arq vol. 2, (autumn 1996): 14-24.

“Architecture is not Made with the Brain: the Smithsons & the Economist Building plaza.” AA Files 30 (autumn 1995): 17-25.

“Architecture is not Made with the Brain: The Smithsons and the Plaza of the Economist building.” Archis (July 1995): 66-80.

“On the Edge of the Ordinary.” (on Caruso St John) Archis (March 1995): 50-61.

“Cerebral Functionalism: The Design of the Leicester University Engineering Building.” Archis (May 1994): 70-80.

“Le Leicester Building”, Le Moniteur Architecture-AMC 46 (November 1993): 32-35.

“Ivry-sur-Seine Town Centre.” AA Files 23 (summer 1992): 44-48.

“Les Smithson à Bath.” Le Moniteur Architecture-AMC 28 (February 1992): 42-45.

“Siedlung Halen: Une Cité Radieuse Helvète.” Le Moniteur Architecture-AMC 24 (September 1991): 46-49.

BOOKS (sole author)

A Right to Difference: The Architecture of Jean Renaudie, London: Architectural Association, 2004. Commendation, Julius Posener CICA Award 2005.

On the work of 6a Architects, forthcoming 2013.

BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS

Contributor to the volume on Modern Architecture, ed. David Leatherbarrow, Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the History of Architecture, 6 volumes, 2013.

“Architecture is not made with the brain.” (reprint) In Alison & Peter Smithson: A Critical Anthology, ed. Max Risselada, Barcelona: Poligrafa, 2011.

“Starting at the Beginning.” In Stanton Williams: Volume, London: Blackdog, 2009.

“Ornament.” In Crucial Words: Conditions for contemporary architecture, ed. Gert Windgardh and Rasmus Waern, Basel: Birkhauser, 2008.

“From Anthropology to Structuralism.” In Team 10: Keeping the Language of Modern Architecture Alive, conference proceedings, Delft University, January 2006.

“Architecture is not made with the Brain.” (reprint from AA Files) In Architecture is not made with the Brain: The Labour of Alison and Peter Smithson, London: Architectural Association, 2005.

“Architecture at the End of History.” (reprint from Contemporary) In Reading MVRDV, Rotterdam: NAi, 2003.

“The Walsall Art Gallery and its Geography.” In The New Art Gallery, Walsall, London: Batsford, 2003.

“Architecture as a Way of Life: The New Brutalism, 1953-1956.” In CIAM Team 10: The English Context, TU-Delft, 2002.

“Croatians with Attitude.” In Kavalriengürtel: njiric + njiric arhitekti, Antwerpen: de Singel Internationaal Kunstcentrum, 2001.

“The City of Small Things.” In Mechtild Stuhlmacher, Rien Korteknie ed., The City of Small Things, Rotterdam, 2001.

“The Value of Objectivity.” In Conference Proceedings, Fifth International DOCOMOMO conference, Stockholm, September 1998.

“Putting the 60’s into the 90’s.” In Europan 4, Constructing the Town upon the Town: Transformation of Contemporary Urban Sites, Paris, 1997.

“Interview with Claude Parent.” with Mohsen Mostafavi. In The Function of the Oblique: The Architecture of Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, 1963-1969, London : Architectural Association, 1996.

BOOK REVIEWS

Vincent Scully, Modern Architecture and Other Essays. AA Files 51 (winter 2005): 80-82.

Charles Jencks, Kenneth Frampton on Le Corbusier, Eric Mumford on the CIAMs. AA Files 44 (autumn 2001): 74-78.

“MVRDV Town.” AA Files 35 (spring 1998): 64-69.

A Critic Writes: Essays by Reyner Banham. AA Files 34 (autumn 1997): 101-104.

Romy Golan, Modernity & Nostalgia. AA Files 33 (summer 1997): 101-104.

OMA/Rem Koolhaas, S,M,L,XL. arq, vol.1 (spring 1996): 90-91.

Colin Rowe, The Architecture of Good Intentions. arq, vol.1 (autumn 1995): 94-96.

Robert Maxwell, Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless. AA Files 28 (autumn 1994): 91-93.

School of Architecture, University of Limerick

2006- : Senior Lecturer Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Fall 2011: Visiting Professor

Spring 2007: Visiting Professor

Spring 2006: Visiting Professor

Architectural Association, London

2000-2006: Course Master responsible for the History and Theory program in

the Undergraduate School 1991-2000: General Studies tutor 1989-1991: Intermediate School Unit Master (2nd and 3rd Year studio)

Other teaching positions held at the Bartlett School of Architecture, South Bank University and Greenwich University, London.

EDITORIAL WORK

2009 to present editorial board of Candide.

1998 to present editorial board of AA Files. 1994-1998 London correspondent of Archis. 1991-2000 London correspondent of Le Moniteur-Architecture-AMC.

CURATORIAL WORK

2008 organizer of the bi-annual debate, British Pavilion, Venice Biennale. 2004 curator of the exhibition on Jean Renaudie, Architectural Association

in collaboration with the Centre Georges Pompidou.

1998 organizer of the symposium “Burghers in Suburbia: Holland 1998

2010”, Architectural Association. 1995-96 organizer of the lecture series “Exemplary Buildings”, Architectural

Association. 1991-93 organizer of the lecture series “Beyond the Periphérique”, Architectural

Association. 1991 organizer of the symposium “Innovation in Social Housing: France 1970- 1990”, Architectural Association.

GUEST LECTURES

USA (GSD, Harvard)

Switzerland (ETH, Zurich)

The Netherlands (TU Delft)

France (Société Française d’Architecture, Paris)

Sweden (KTH; Royal University of Fine Arts, Stockholm)

Belgium (de Singel, Antwerp; Université Catholique, Leuwen)

Ireland (UCD, Dublin)

Austria (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna)

UK (Architectural Association, RIBA, Tate-Britain, London Metropolitan University, Sheffield University, Edinburgh University, etc.)

MEMBERSHIPS

International Committee of Architectural Critics

Architectural Association