John Tuomey

John Tuomey graduated from University College Dublin in 1976. He moved to London to work with James Stirling on the Stuttgart Staatsgalerie, from competition to detail design. Returning to Dublin in 1981 to work at the Office of Public Works, he co-founded O’Donnell + Tuomey in 1988. He was the first recipient of the UCD Masters in Architecture (based on reflective design practice) in 2004. He was managing director of Group 91, an architects’ collaborative who designed the masterplan for the regeneration of Temple Bar as Dublin’s cultural quarter. John taught at University College Dublin for 40 years, where he was the inaugural Professor of Architectural Design until 2019. He has taught and lectured at schools of Architecture in Europe, Japan and the USA, including the AA, Cambridge, Princeton and Harvard GSD. He is author of Architecture, Craft and Culture. Space for Architecture and More Space for Architecture were co-authored with Sheila O’Donnell. He is an Honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a member of Aosdána. In 2015 he was joint recipient with Sheila O’Donnell of the RIBA Royal Gold Medal and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Brunner Prize, both awarded in recognition of a lifetime’s work.