O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects
Sheila O'Donnell B Arch MA RCA FRIAI RIBA was born in Dublin 1953. She graduated from the School of Architecture, University College Dublin in 1976, gaining an MA from the Royal College of Art London in 1980. She is a studio lecturer in UCD. A former board member of the National Museum and the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, she is currently a member of the RIBA Awards Group. Having worked in London with Spence and Webster, Colquhoun and Miller and Stirling Wilford, she set up in private practice in Dublin in 1986. She established her partnership with John Tuomey in 1988.
John Tuomey M Arch FRIAI RIBA was born in Tralee, Co. Kerry, in 1954. He graduated from the School of Architecture, University College Dublin in 1976. In 2004 he gained an M. Arch from UCD, where he is currently Professor of Architectural Design. He is a visiting critic at many European and American schools of architecture. Having worked with James Stirling in London and the Office of Public Works in Dublin, he established his partnership with Sheila O’Donnell in 1988. He is author of Architecture, Craft and Culture published by Gandon Editions in 2004, now in its second edition.
O’DONNELL + TUOMEY O’Donnell + Tuomey, established by Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey in 1988, has been involved with urban design, cultural and educational buildings, houses and housing projects in Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK. They were members of Group 91, framework planners for the regeneration of Temple Bar, Dublin’s cultural quarter, where they were architects for three buildings; Irish Film Institute, National Photography Archive and Gallery of Photography. Educational buildings include Ranelagh School Dublin 1998 and Furniture College Letterfrack 2001. Social buildings include Sean O’Casey Community Centre 2009 and Timberyard Social Housing 2009. Recent cultural projects include the Glucksman Gallery University College Cork completed in 2004, the Lyric Theatre Belfast due for completion 2012, and the extension to the Photographers’ Gallery, London.
Winners of more than 50 national and international awards for their work across the past twenty years; they have been six times winners of the AAI Downes Medal; three times finalists for the Mies Van der Rohe Award for European Architecture in 1997, 1999, and 2003; twice shortlisted for the Stirling Prize in 1999 and 2005; shortlisted for Lubetkin Prize 2009, and won the RIAI Gold Medal in 2005. They were selected to represent Ireland in a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2004 and a group show “The Lives of Spaces” in 2008. Princeton Architectural Press published a monograph O’Donnell +Tuomey Selected Works in 2007.
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