TAKA Architects: Transmission
Lecture
Date: Friday 27th September, 2024
4:30pm: Public reception
5:00pm: Presentations by Taka Architects and Shane de Blacam.
7:15pm: Round table hosted by Marko Milovanovic.
Location: O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance
TAKA Architects was founded in 2008, by Alice Casey and Cian Deegan and is based in Dublin, Ireland.
The practice has received national and international awards; including being shortlisted for the 2017 Mies Van der Rohe European Union Prize, finalist in the BD Young Architect of the Year Award and Royal Academy Dorfman Award, and winner of the AR Peter Davey Prize for Emerging Architecture 2019.
TAKA has exhibited in the Venice Architecture Biennale several times: in 2008 as an exhibitor in the Irish National Pavilion, in 2010 as co-curator of the Irish National Pavilion, and in 2018 as an exhibitor in the Central Pavilion.
Alice & Cian have taught Architecture at Queens University Belfast, University College Dublin, and currently at the Dublin School of Architecture (TU Dublin). They have both been a recipient of the EU Marie Curie/ Adapt-R research fellowship and completed PhDs by Practice with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in 2017.