UCD College of Engineering & Architecture

Alumni

During the School of Architecture’s centenary celebrations in 2011/12, a special effort was made to get in touch with the School’s graduates and friends. We received many responses to our letter to the Irish Times, requests through social media and architecture organisations online, and a great deal of word-of-mouth.

Many of the year’s events allowed graduates and friends of the School to reconnect and socialise, beginning with the opening party in September (launched by Minister for Education and Skills, and graduate of the School, Ruairi Quinn TD) where hundreds of guests came to the School’s home at Richview to celebrate the occasion. A permanent installation on the ceiling of the Red Room, incorporating the first 2046 B.Arch graduates and made by then-Upper School students, was unveiled at the event. 

Throughout the year, graduates and friends attended lectures and exhibitions, including special series coinciding with the centenary as well as the School’s regular programme of events. In March, the one-day Architecture for Society symposium featured many graduates among the speakers as well as the lively and engaged audience.

To mark the closing of the Centenary, an exhibition was organised to celebrate these connections and the shared experience of having studied architecture. An open call was issued to graduates and students of all Irish and Northern Irish schools, and the selected work was exhibited alongside an installation marking the School’s history in Earlsfort Terrace and an audio documentary about the first 100 years, based on interviews with graduates and staff.

These renewed connections with graduates made the centenary year a huge pleasure, and we hope you will join us for future exhibitions, lectures and events in the School.

If you would like to be kept up to date with future events, please subscribe to our mailing list by contacting events@ucdarchitecture.ie