Senior Lecturer

Email: kevin.donovan@tudublin.ie

Tel: 01 220 6818

Dr Kevin Donovan is an architect and researcher in the architectural humanities, with a complementary background in textual and visual studies (TVS). He has completed a PhD through UCD Architecture on the concept of the atelier. This research examines points of connection implicit in the atelier idea (workshop/studio, science/art, makers and users/material objects, for example) using the vehicle of key buildings designed and made in the Ateliers Jean Prouvé (1924–1956). It also engages the critical framework of actor-network theory, and an alternative but contemporary practice perspective from the ‘atelier’ writings of poet Francis Ponge.

Other research interests include the history and theory of dwelling in the twentieth century (in Ireland and Europe), architecture in the rural environment, architectures of infrastructure and relationships between architecture and writing.

Kevin has previously taught widely on the research, history, theory and studio components of the architecture programmes at UCD Architecture, Cork Centre for Architectural Education and UCD Art History and Social Policy. He co-organised ‘Setting Out’, the first Irish architecture PhD symposium for the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) in Dublin in 2014.

He is a recipient of the RIBA President’s Medal for Dissertation and of research funding from UCD, the Arts Council, the Institut national de l’histoire de l’art, the Centre Culturel Irlandais, and the Association for Rural Development.

Kevin currently coordinates the MArch programme and co-coordinates the final year of the BArch programme at the Dublin School of Architecture.