Clachans: Narratives for New neighbourhoods
Proctor and Matthews Architects
Talk, Discussion
Date: Friday, 04 October 2024
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Location: The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Ln, Galway
Presentation by Stephen Proctor, alongside Andrew Matthews, co-founders Proctor and Matthews Architects.
The presentation will focus on the design by Proctor and Matthews Architects for a recently completed residential development at Wilkinson’s Brook, Tyrrelstown, Fingal.
Taking initial inspiration from the historic Irish Clachan clusters, this project and other recent work looks to create low rise higher density neighbourhoods with a defined sense of place, identity and belonging : an approach which proffers an alternative to ubiquitous low density, car-dominated suburbia.
They will be joined by Dr. Eoin Flaherty, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, National University of Ireland Maynooth and author of 'Rundale and 19th Century Irish Settlement: System, Space, and Genealogy' for conversation.
Supported by Patrick McCabe Architects
Patrick McCabe | B.Arch, FRIAI, RIBA, Grade 2 Conservation Architect, was instigator and chairman of Open House Galway, The West of Ireland Architectural Festival, and former chairman of the Western Group of Architects.
Hailing from Dublin, Patrick graduated in architecture from UCD in 1984. Having worked in London, he then became design director of a prominent practice in Galway, steering it to substantial growth and receiving multiple awards along the way.
He founded Patrick McCabe Architects in 2013, with a mission to make architecture that works, and now feels lucky to be able to concentrate on what he loves best—the contemporary home.
Patrick died suddenly in June 2021and sadly missed by his beloved wife of 35 years, Sarah Kelly, their children Barry, Grace and Cillian, the extended McCabe and Kelly family and also by his colleagues and friends in Architecture, Construction and sport in Galway, Mayo, Dublin and beyond.