O'Donnell + Tuomey:
Selected Works
Sheila O'Donnell , John Tuomey

In today's Ireland, it's not only the economy that's booming. Dublinbased architects O'Donnell + Tuomey have brought a wealth of exciting buildings to the Emerald Isle for the past seventeen years. Their striking modernist works show their appreciation for Ireland's rich cultural, historic, and civic identity without falling into the trap of typical pitched roofs, gables, slate, and brick. Instead the firm chooses less conventional but more fitting materials that seem to express something not quite visible about their sites.

O'Donnell + Tuomey, the first monograph on the firm, presents fifteen of their institutional and residential projects in an arresting collection of color photography, plans, and drawings. The book includes the controversial Irish Pavilion at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Ranelagh Multidenominational School, the Irish Pavilion at the 2004 Venice Biennale, and their recent Glucksman Gallery at the University College Cork, which was one of six buildings shortlisted for the 2005 Stirling Prize.


O'Donnell + Tuomey is the 17-year old Irish firm of Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey.

O'Donnell&Tuomey's Lewis Glucksman Gallery was one of six buildings shortlisted for the 2005 Stirling Prize.

David Leatherbarrow is Professor of Architecture and Chairman of the Graduate Group in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of numerous books). Tod Williams and Billie Tsien are practicing architects (Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates) and both maintain active teaching careers parallel to their practice. Tsien has taught at Parsons School of Design, SCI-ARC, Harvard, Yale, and UT Austin. Williams has taught at the Cooper Union, SCI-ARC, Harvard, Yale, and UT Austin and held the Thomas Jefferson chair at the University of Virginia in 1990.
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Editorial Reviews

The Architects' Journal (UK):
"The latest book is a necessary pictorial supplement to Architecture, Craft and Culture, and one should not have them apart. . . .When looking for images of contemporary Ireland at its best, refreshed by new-found wealth and confidence, one should put this book at the top of the pile. And O'Donnell + Tuomey should get its Stirling Prize one day soon." (March 2007)

Architect's Journal:
"The latest book is a necessary pictorial supplement to Architecture, Craft and Culture, and one should not have them apart. . . .When looking for images of contemporary Ireland at its best, refreshed by new-found wealth and confidence, one should put this book at the top of the pile. And O'Donnell + Tuomey should get its Stirling Prize one day soon." (March 2007)

RIBA:
"Dublin-based architects O'Donnell + Tuomey have brought a wealth of exciting buildings to the Emerald Isle for the past 17 years. This first publication on the firm presents 15 of their institutional and residential projects in an arresting collection of colour photography, plans and drawing. " (Nov. 2006)

Art + Auction:
"Introduces an Irish firm whose work strikes me as poetic, humane and cogent. . . . My bet is that we'll be hearing a lot more from them. Remember the name: O'Donnell + Tuomey." (April 2007)

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