- Breen, Noreile
- Bucholz, Prof. Merritt
- BuronGarcia, Javi
- Carroll, Sylvia
- Carroll, Peter
- Carroll, Jim
- Carty, Gerard
- Dunn, Miriam
- Feeney, Declan
- Flynn, Morgan
- Frohburg, Jan
- Griffin, Andrew
- Hassett, Grainne
- Hatz, Prof. Elizabeth
- Laroussi, Maxim
- Lewis, Prof. David J.
- McCarthy, Fran
- Moylan, Prof. Tom
- O’Donovan, Eddie
- Petrie, Graham
- Ryan, Dr. Anna
- Scalbert, Irénée
- Shaw, Dr. Lytle
- Walker, Simon
- Walsh, Gerard
- Webb, Rosie
People
Simon Walker
I am an architect in private practice, educated at University College Dublin, graduating with first class honours in 1992. Prior to training as an architect, I attended school and completed an apprenticeship in joinery in France, spending two years working on exhibition installations at the Centre Pompidou. Following this I worked as assistant to Sol Lewitt and other artists in the fabrication of wall-drawings, sculpture and silkscreen prints in New York from 1982 to 1987.
In 1993 I took up a full-time post with U.C.D. as head of the Building Laboratory at the School of Architecture, and established my own practice in Dublin in 1997. I continued to teach as a design studio master in U.C.D., and contributed as a visiting critic at the Dublin Institute of Technology, until my appointment to the studio teaching staff at the School of Architecture, University of Limerick, in 2009.
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Teaching Modules
Design Studio Module Co-ordinator, First Year, School of Architecture University of Limerick 2010 – present
Design Studio Module Co-ordinator, Third Year, School of Architecture University of Limerick 2009-10
Thesis Tutor, School of Architecture, University College Dublin, 1993 – present
Visiting Critic Thesis Year at Queens University Belfast, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecure, Nantes [ENSAN] 2010 – present
Visiting Critic Thesis Year, Architecture Department, Dublin Institute of Technology, 2002-present
Visiting Critic First and Fourth Years at Cork Centre for Architectural Education [CCAE], 2010-2012
Design Studio Master, School of Architecture, University College Dublin, 2000-2009
Head, Building Laboratory, School of Architecture, University College Dublin, 1993-96
Building Technology Lecturer, School of Architecture, University College Dublin, 1993-2000
Publications
de Blacam and Meagher, Irish exhibit at Venice Biennale / IAF 2010, “Writings” catalogue essay
Wallpaper magazine Architects Directory 2010, “Back-to-Front House” by Simon Walker
The Lives of Spaces, catalogue essay by Simon Walker, Venice Biennale / IAF, 2008
“LACE” exhibition, Bea McMahon, artist, catalogue essay by Simon Walker, 2007
“An Irish Courtyard House”, article by Simon Walker, House magazine, RIAI Spring 2007
“Four under Forty”, group show of architecture, catalogue essay by Simon Walker, 2007
“Portrait of a Family”, The Gloss magazine, October 2006
“Wild West”, special feature on Co. Kerry house, Vogue magazine, April 2006
“Cottage with Attitude”, special feature on Dublin house, Irish Times property supplement, 14/07/2005
“Behind the Façade”, special feature on Kerr house, Image Interiors magazine, autumn 2004
Eight Architects in Ireland, special feature, a+u Magazine, November 2003
Shay Cleary monograph, introduction by Simon Walker, Gandon Editions, 2002
“Positive Light”, special feature on Ryan house, Image Interiors magazine, summer 2002
“It’s Back to Front”, special feature on Dublin house, Irish Independent, 28/05/2002
“Construction Deconstructed”, special feature on Simon Walker, Irish Times magazine, 25/05/2002
Article on AAI architectural awards, Irish Times, 10/04/2001
Article on Radius PI restaurant, Cork, Sunday Tribune, 25/02/2001
Article on Radius PI restaurant, Cork, Sunday Tribune, 20/10/2000
Special feature on Radius PI restaurant, Cork, Irish Times magazine, 18/11/2000
“The Future of Design” article by Simon Walker, Sunday Business Post, 12/03/1999
Architecture in Ireland, chronology of Irish Architecture, 1940 – Present, exhibition catalogue essays by Simon Walker, Frankfurt Book Fair, 1997
“The Power of an Idea”, contributing editor’s essay, published by Temple Bar Properties, 1996
Special feature on Simon Walker, Sunday Independent, 24/08/1997
“Bridge”, collaboration with Corban Walker and Peter Maybury, CIRCA magazine, summer 1996
“Poetics and Production”, article in the AGA Broadsheet, 1994
Article on Mark Guard, including Paris rooftop apartment, RIBA Journal, December 1993
Several other media articles and publications, including The Irish Times, The Sunday Tribune, The Irish Independent, The Gloss magazine, Maison Madame Figaro magazine, Image Interiors magazine, and others, between 1993 and 2005
Professional Activities
I have been involved in designing and curating exhibitions of architecture, and my writing about architecture in Ireland has been published in several books and reviews. My practice is currently engaged in a variety of projects for public and private clients, including houses, urban renewal projects, apartment buildings, a public theatre and arts centre, a community centre, and a yacht club.
My work includes furniture design and I am a member of the Irish Furniture Designers Network, promoting our work through international fairs and exhibitions. I am also a member of the committee of DOCOMOMO Ireland, which is dedicated to the preservation of buildings of the Modern Movement.
Education:
Member of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland since 1997
Bachelor of Architecture [1st. Hons.], U.C.D. 1992
Menuisier C.G.C.P. [Ville de Paris] P1/P2, 1981
Exhibitions:
“4 am”, construction of Tom de Paor exhibit and design of blown glass lamp for Kazuo Sejima main pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2010
The Lives of Spaces, Irish Architecture Foundation, Venice Biennale, 2008
“Four under Forty”, group show of architecture, Dublin 2007
Designers’ Block group furniture show with Irish Furniture Designers Network, London 2003.
Curator, “The Power of an Idea” exhibition of architecture, Temple Bar, Dublin, 1996.
Designer, exhibitor and installation co-ordinator for U.C.D. exhibit, Venice Biennale, 1991
Public Lectures:
“The Unity Mistake”, Simon Walker on Robin Walker, AAI Public Lecture series, Trinity College Dublin, November 2012
“Heroes and Anti-Heroes”, DOCOMOMO Symposium at IMMA show “The Moderns”, January 2011
“Fresh Latino”, recent works by Simon Walker, Cervantes Institute, Dublin, January 2010
“Bótharbuí”, following Venice Biennale, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, March 2009
“Jamming 2”, recent works by Simon Walker, The Sugar Club, Dublin, October 2007
Awards
Selected for exhibition, Irish Architecture Foundation, Venice Biennale, 2008
Shortlist of three, Kevin Kieran Award, Arts Council, 2009
Special Mention for Regent Apartments, AAI Awards 2001
Special Mention for Cut-Out Furniture, AAI Awards 2001
Special Mention for Loft [Room Organiser / Divider], AAI Awards 1999
Selected for exhibition, Dublin Corporation Wolfe Tone Square Competition, 1998
Category Award for Housing, Rooftop Apartment, Paris, RIBA Stirling Prize 1997
People’s Choice Award, Rooftop Apartment, Paris, RIBA Stirling Prize 1997
Commended in Dublin Corporation / Harp Smithfield Architectural Competition, 1997