Welcome to the GOING PUBLIC lecture by
Níall McLaughlin Architects
TAKING TIME
Tuesday 25/02/25 18:30 (ENG)
Auditorium A4 Alexianenplein, Ghent + open bar
Níall McLaughlin Architects designs high-quality modern architecture with a strong emphasis on inventive materials, light, and the relationship between buildings and surroundings.
For us, practice is understood as a range of activities which are all necessary to each other – design of buildings, fittings and furniture; making buildings, installations and models; connecting speculation, research and practice, lecturing and writing about architecture; collaborations with craftsmen, artists, other architects and creative agencies, and consultants. Dialogue is key. Our studio is built on this ethos, ensuring all members of our team are engaged, motivated and thus valued.
We are acutely aware of architecture’s role in the climate and biodiversity emergency and promote practices that respect planetary boundaries. Níall McLaughlin Architects are signatories of Architects Declare and the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge.
We strive to develop ethical, socially aware projects that positively contribute to society. Through internship programmes and as an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to addressing inequality within the profession.
Bio
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. Níall exhibited in the Venice Biennale in 2016 and 2018 and has been shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2013, 2015, 2018 and winner in 2022 for The New Library, Magdalene College.
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.