Graduates of the School of Architecture at UCD both embraced and shaped modernism, several receiving worldwide acclaim for their designs as well as opening up the world of modernism to those students with whom they came in contact.

Andy Devane, one of the first distinguised modern architects to emerge from UCD, gradauted in 1941. He made a formative journey to visit the Taliesin West studio of Frank Lloyd Wright [documented in the 1946 RIAI Yearbook].

His own house, "Journey's End", built in Howth, 1962, is evidence of how deep and lasting was the influence of the time spent with Wright.

Kevin Roche Graduated from UCD in 1945 and worked with Micahel Scott for two years, contributing to the distinctive design of the skyline of Busaras.

He Subsequently emigrated to the US to study with Mies van der Rohe.

In 1950 he joined the office of Eero Saarinen and became principal design associate in 1954. He completed Saarinen's masterpiece, the TWA Flight Center at JFK and continued the practise in partnership with John Dinkeloo after the death of Saarinen in 1961.

Architect of many civic buildings, including the Oakland Museum in California and the Ford Foundation in New York, Roche received the Pritzker Prize in 1982 and the AIA Gold Medal in 1993.