Ellen Rowley
B.A. (dubl.), M.Phil (Cantab.)
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Broad Curriculum Lecturer + Convenor, art+society
Lecturer, Approaches to Architectural History
Room 5076, 5th Floor Arts’ Building
telephone: + 353 1 896 3396
erowley@tcd.ie
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- Board Member, Architectural Association of Ireland
- Member, Society of Architectural Historians (USA)
- Member, Architectural Humanities Research Association, www.ahra-architecture.org.uk
- Member, European Architectural History Network, www.eahn.org
- Member, Irish Association of Art Historians
- Executive Committee Member, TRIARC (Trinity Irish Art Research Centre)
- Reviewer, Architecture Ireland and House, R.I.A.I. magazines
Recipient of Provost’s Teaching Award 2005/2006, Early Career Award: The awards acknowledge those academic staff who have made an outstanding contribution in the pursuit of teaching excellence in College and who promote teaching as a scholarly activity.
Research Interests
- Twentieth Century western architecture
- Hermeneutic approach to architectural history, seventeenth to twenty-first century
- Modern and contemporary Irish art and architecture
Ongoing:: Ph.D in post-war Dublin architecture, Culture of Architecture in Dublin, 1945 – 1985: A Study of Architectural Discourse and the Key Buildings of Worship, Work and Home
2001:: M.Phil studies: History + Philosophy of Architecture, Cambridge University. Frederick Kiesler’s Endless House: Surrealist Architecture?
Publications
- “From Dublin to Chicago and Back Again: The Influence of Americanised Modernism on Dublin Architecture 1960 – 1980” in Linda King, Elaine Sisson, (editors), Made in Ireland. Ireland and the Materialisation of National Identity, 1922 – 1992, (Cork: Cork University Press, 2008)
- Edit and self-publish with Maxim Laroussi, (Architecture Republic), i.e. Patterns of Thought, collection of critical writings on Irish architecture by such critics as Fintan O’Toole, Seamus Heaney, Raymond Ryan, and Catherine Marshall, (funding from Tegral)
- “Tradition – Tension – Transition: Post-war Dublin Churches and the Example of the Clonskeagh Church Competition, 1954” in Carol Taffe, Edwina Keown, (editors), Modernism and its Legacy in Ireland, (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008)
- with Javier Buron (Archfarm) and Prof. Tony Fahey (Social Science, UCD), The Life and Times of Dublin’s Balcony Block Housing, 1955 – 1975(forthcoming, 2008)
- “The National + the Foreign: A Post-War History of Architectural Association of Ireland’s Lecture Programme” in Building Material, (Dublin: AAI Journal, Autumn 2008)
- “Hotel Ballymun: Site for Reflection in the Heady Days of Regeneration” in Architecture Ireland, (Dublin: RIAI Journal, June 2007), to be reprinted in Breaking Ground Publication, 2008, details forthcoming.
- “The Architectural Association of Ireland: Champion + Protectorate of the Art-of-Irish Architecture” in Magill Magazine(May, 2007)
- “Establishing the Culture of Irish Architecture: Post-War History of Architectural Association of Ireland” in Building Material, (Dublin: AAI Journal, No. 16, Autumn 2006)
- “Façade for Conservation?” in Architecture Ireland, (Dublin: RIAI Journal, March 2006)
Modern and Contemporary Architecture Building Reviews:
2008: Nun’s Lane by Donal Hickey (Arcus Architects) for House Magazine (RIAI Journal of Domestic Architecture) and Architecture Ireland (RIAI Journal)
2007: Mimetic House by Dominic Stevens; Church Lane Terrace by Cloonan O’Donnell for House Magazine (RIAI Journal of Domestic Architecture).
2006: Galway City Arts Centre by OPW Architects; National Irish Bank Façade by Robin Walker for Architecture Ireland (RIAI Journal).
2003-2005: Rathmines Terrace by Dermot Boyd; Wicklow House by Henchion Reuter; Goulding House by Scott Tallon Walker; Wine Shop by ODOS Architects; Kitchen by Donaghy Dimond; House-Above-Shop by Dimond; Mount Pleasant Mews by Simon Walker for Image Interiors.
Select Recent + Forthcoming Conference Papers/Public Lectures/Panel/Symposia Contributions:
March 2008: “The Origins of King-Kong Architecture in Dublin, 1960 – 1975” Symposium Paper: AFTERTHOUGHTS, Green-on-Red Gallery Dublin, curated by Dennis McNulty with Owen Drumm, Riklef Rambow, Ros Kavanagh, Francois Chastenet.
November 2007: Panel Discussion, crisis what crisis International Symposium/Panel member with Joe Kerr, Fintan O’Toole, Prof. Ciaran Benson: crisis what crisis. Part of Body City, Dublin Docklands art project.
October 2007: “Dublin Architecture 1945 – 1960: The Case of R.C. Church Design” International Conference Paper: “Irish Modernism and its Legacies”, School of English, Trinity College Dublin.
March 2007: “The Influence of Louis Kahn on De Blacam + Dowley” International Conference Paper: “Ireland’s America”, IAAS 2007 Conference, Clinton Institute, UCD.
Feb 2006: “Establishing the Culture of Post-War Irish Architecture? A Review of the Architectural Association of Ireland 1945-1975” Postgraduate seminar paper: Department of History of Art, TCD.
May 2005/Oct 2006: “The Aesthetics of Modern Architecture” Double lectures to the public on behalf of Department of the Environment/ Architectural Association of Ireland.
Nov 2003: “A Glimpse at the Endless House; Frederick Kiesler” International Conference Paper: The Intimate Metropolis: Domesticating the Urban, Infiltrating the Room, in Architectural Association, London.
Oct 2003: “The (Un) Happy Phenomenon of the Irish Pavilion Explored” Conference Paper: On The Edge – Design & Material Culture in Ireland, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art & Design, Co Dublin.
Contact: arthist@tcd.ie
