A dynamic alliance between NCAD and UCO presents a unique opportunity to power a radical reimagining of NCAD’s historic urban location, writes Sean O’Laoire
UCD’s School of Architecture (founded in 1912) and the National College of Art (Kildare Street) have a decades-long relationship. Both schools were reborn and relocated in the early 1970s, on foot of ‘Gentle Revolutions’ in both institutions: UCD’s School of Architecture (now the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy) to the former Masonic School at Richview, and the (then) National College of Art (now the National College of Art and Design) to the former Power’s Distillery in Thomas Street – the former to bucolic suburban Clonskeagh, the latter to the gritty, post-industrial Liberties.
Stephanie McBride reflects on the extraordinary life’s work of Arthur Fields, the last of the street photographers
All around the globe, conflicts have and continue to shape the land and their inhabitants’; Elizabeth Magill explores the flipside of the buccolic in conversation with Brian McAvera.
