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I am the MArch Programme Director at CCAE (2009), the founder and Principal of Architecture 53seven (2000), and Co-Founder of DATUM [ Architectural Research Investigations] (2012). My research involves forming new and critical understandings of the 21st century City, and between architecture and wider urban environments.

I am currently undertaking a PhD (Architecture) at the University of Edinburgh, having previously graduated with Distinction from the University of Edinburgh (1999), and from the Queens University of Belfast with First Class Honours (1996). 

I have contributed to ongoing critical debate in architecture through presentations to various Architectural forum over the past 14 years which include; The Andrew Carnegie Lecture Series PhD Symposium (Edinburgh 2014), AHRA PhD Sympsoium (2014), ARENA Network Meeting (Brussels 2014), Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) (Estonia 2014), and Istanbul Design Week (IDW 2013 ) 2013, “New Pedagogies in Spatial Practice". Presentation to All Ireland Architecture Research Group 2013, "The City as Palimpsest" in Darc Space 2012, The All Ireland Architecture Research Group (AIARG) in 2011, Frequencies Lecture Series (National Sculpture Factory Series) in Cork in 2011, The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture & Built Environment (2010), Architectural Association of Ireland (AAI) at Dublin Institute of Technology in 2010, The University of Limerick (SOFA) in 2009, at the Institute Cervantes and AAI,. Fresh-air-kitecture Series in 2009 in conversation with Victoria Acebo (AceboXAlonso), the Showcase Lecture at the European Architecture Student Assembly (EASA) in 2008, , Defining Space International Symposium on Architecture in 2007, University College Dublin “Aparallel Evolution” in 2007,The Limerick Architecture Forum (RIAI). Limerick in 2004, and The University of Edinburgh in 2002.

Through my practice Architecture 53seven, I have been nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2009 and received several other architectural awards, most notably a Special Commendation at the inaugural World Architecture Festival in Barcelona 2008, an AAI Special Award in 2008, several RIAI Regional Awards and Commendations- which include a finalist in the RIAI Silver Medal 2011, and has been a finalist for the BD Young Architect of the Year in 2008 & 2009. I have lectured extensively on research themes relating to my practices in architecture; presented a Showcase Lecture at the European Architecture Student Assembly (EASA) in 2008, was exhibited at the Defining Space International Symposium on Architecture in 2007 and been an invited guest critic to several Schools of Architecture which include; The Architectural Association (AA), The Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow, The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture & Built Environment, The University of Edinburgh, University College Dublin, Dublin Institute of Technology, and The University of Ulster.

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WORKING WITH THE CONTINGENT    [ imprévu]

Perhaps it is because architects are compelled to constantly mediate a sort of oscillating ‘milieux’ i.e theory, practice and environmental limits, that we see where new possibilities for knowledge acquisition emerging; whereby one must engage multi-modal intelligences in order to allow for the emergence of a coherent design provocation.

From this arises the inevitable question of ‘finding’ form, which I consider must do so in a non-linear way- often by re-exploring supposed ‘dead-ends’, and even by being mislead into things that seems initially unproductive. Any critically-based works must also be capable of dealing with the unforeseen and the unexpected; and in order to deal with such contingent conditions- the design project must be constructed through subtle acts of observation and speculation, whereby even the act of drawing (including models and text-making) has its own epistemological value. Understood in this way, the drawing itself has become a site of inquiry for us; which critically has an inherent speculative potential in the establishing of new formal, spatial and programmatic possibilities. In doing so, it allows the work to develop through a series of permutative and combinational interests; tethering bodily, spatial, and atmospheric conditions and the architectural project itself.

Such practices expose a wide range of alternative measures in dealing with the study of contemporary city and its urban landscapes. My interest in this wider field of disciplinary exchange, is to move toward the making and writing of architecture, and instead to produce sites that continually operates in a dissensual way- which in turn indicates an interest in forming critical research inquiry The purpose of attempting to extend these referencing terms, is that I consider it important that ideas of scholarship and learning are constructed within a distinct cultural and epistemological environment.

Inherent in these explorations is the ambition to craftily intermingle the old and new, and to find ways to productively heighten the experiential and circumstantial- in ways that rely on being simultaneously protomodern and radically near future, and in order to expose new potentialities for architecture and the 21st century city.

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	Year	Publication
	(2009)	Translating the Translator. Jason M.O'Shaughnessy (2009) Translating the Translator. IRELAND: Articles [Details]
	(2009)	Visual- thinking big. Jason M.O'Shaughnessy (2009) Visual- thinking big. Dublin: Articles [Details]
	(2008)	Daniel Libeskind in Dublin. Jason M.O'Shaughnessy and Sandra O'Connell PhD (2008) Daniel Libeskind in Dublin. Dublin: Articles [Details]
	(2008)	Eglinton House. Architecture Ireland incorporating Irish architect (2008) Eglinton House. Ireland: Articles [Details]
	(2007)	North 53, West 7: Interview with Jason O'Shaughnessy, founder of Architecture 53Seven. Denise Maguire (2007) North 53, West 7: Interview with Jason O'Shaughnessy, founder of Architecture 53Seven. Dublin: Articles [Details]
	(2007)	The Young Irish. Emmett Scanlon (2007) The Young Irish. The Netherlands: Articles [Details]
	(2007)	Architectural practice profile - Architecture 53Seven. Caroline Allen (2007) Architectural practice profile - Architecture 53Seven. Dublin: Articles [Details]
	(2006)	It must be considered that Irish Architecture has yet to produce visionary healthcare buildings. Jason M.O'Shaughnessy (2006) It must be considered that Irish Architecture has yet to produce visionary healthcare buildings. Articles [Details]
	(2006)	The airborne monolith - Egan's juice bar and roof terrace, Portlaoise, Co Laois. Jason M.O'Shaughnessy. Architecture 53seven (2006) The airborne monolith - Egan's juice bar and roof terrace, Portlaoise, Co Laois. Articles [Details]
	(2006)	Review of Egan's Juice Bar and Roof Terrace: Something strange and rather wonderful in Portlaoise. Mark Dorrian (2006) Review of Egan's Juice Bar and Roof Terrace: Something strange and rather wonderful in Portlaoise. Ireland: Articles [Details]
	(2006)	Tullow Civic Offices and Library, Co Carlow. Jason M.O'Shaughnessy, Architecture 53seven (2006) Tullow Civic Offices and Library, Co Carlow. Articles [Details]
	(2006)	MAXXI. Jason O'Shaughnessy (2006) MAXXI. Articles [Details]
	(2006)	Architecture 53Seven. Denise Maguire (2006) Architecture 53Seven. Dublin: Articles [Details]
	(2006)	Irish architecture awards 2006 ; Selected for exhibition. Architecture Ireland incorporating Irish architect (2006) Irish architecture awards 2006 ; Selected for exhibition. Articles [Details]
	(2006)	Signature building. Jason Walsh (2006) Signature building. Articles [Details]
	(2005)	Tullow Civic Centre and Library, Co Carlow. LAN local authority news (2005) Tullow Civic Centre and Library, Co Carlow. Ireland: Articles [Details]
	(2003)	Urban routines and street furniture, Lyster Square, Portlaoise, Co. Laois. Jason M.O'Shaughnessy (2003) Urban routines and street furniture, Lyster Square, Portlaoise, Co. Laois. Dublin: Articles [Details]
	(2002)	Tom's Bar, Mountrath, Co Laois. Jason M.O'Shaughnessy (2002) Tom's Bar, Mountrath, Co Laois. Ireland: Articles [Details]
	(1997)	A temporary exhibition : design for an aboriginal interpretive centre for Sydney, Australia. Jason O'Shaughnessy (1997) A temporary exhibition : design for an aboriginal interpretive centre for Sydney, Australia. Belfast, Northern Ireland: Articles [Details]

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Built Works

	Year	Publication
	(2013)	Hill [side] House. Jason M.O'Shaughnessy. Architecture 53seven (2013) Hill [side] House. Built Works [Details]
	(2011)	RIAI Silver Medal. Jason M.O'Shaughnessy, Architecture 53seven (2011) RIAI Silver Medal. Built Works [Details]
	(2011)	Extensions & refurbishments : fit-out, Castletroy Medical Centre. Denise Maguire (2011) Extensions & refurbishments : fit-out, Castletroy Medical Centre. Dublin: Built Works [Details]
	(2010)	Small projects part 1 : fit-out of Castletroy medical centre. Denise Maguire (2010) Small projects part 1 : fit-out of Castletroy medical centre. Dublin: Built Works [Details]
	(2009)	Mies van der Rohe European Awards. Jason M.O'Shaughnessy, Architecture 53seven (2009) Mies van der Rohe European Awards. Built Works [Details]
	(2008)	World Architecture Festival. Jason M.O'Shaughnessy, Architecture 53seven (2008) World Architecture Festival. Barcelona, Spain: Built Works [Details]
	(2007)	Irish Concrete Society Annual Awards. Jason M.O'Shaughnessy, Architecture 53seven (2007) Irish Concrete Society Annual Awards. Built Works [Details]
	(2007)	LAMA Awards. Jason M.O'Shaughnessy (2007) LAMA Awards. Built Works [Details]
	(2007)	The airbourne monolith. Ulster Architect (2007) The airbourne monolith. Belfast: Built Works [Details]
	(2005)	Tullow Civic Centre and Library. Plan Architectural Review (2005) Tullow Civic Centre and Library. Dublin: Built Works [Details]

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PRINCIPAL DUTIES

Director of Master of Architecture Programme:

As Director of the Master of Architecture Course at CCAE Cork Centre for Architectural Education, I had overall responsibility for the design of the key intellectual and thematic direction of the Course since 2010. This involved that the Course structure and content complied with Article 46 of Directive 2005/36/EC, the Building Control Act 2007, and the RIAI Competencies for Architects- leading to successful Accreditation of the Course in 2012.

APPLICATION OF INTERESTS

The Master of Architecture Course aims to encourage a distinctive, design-based culture through the development of conceptual and innovative design. This idea is advanced by an interest in combining emerging trajectories in design pedagogy with new attitudes for complex spatial analysis and mapping.

The year begins with an introduction of the city of study and to a thematic field of interests. The wider theoretical concerns of the Course are then tested and elaborated through an intensive period of Field Work in the selected city- followed the development of a critically situated Thesis project.

It is thought that the various attitudes that develop within the overall pedagogical environment can begin to speculate on the patterns of organisation, the accretion of historical strata, and the network of infrastructural and political conditions that define the twenty-first-century City. The overall aim of the Course considers is to form architectural scenarios that provoke something new, unexpected, and ultimately challenging within their particular environments and contexts.

PROJECTS REVIEW (ISTANBUL.2012)

"The theme of the MArch - City as Palimpsest-applies both to Istanbul and the students' work. The profusion of models, drawings and artefact's indicate a strong commitment to expressive aesthetics, tactile materiality and the poetics of contemporary urbanism. Found objects are incorporated and transformed, indicating the relevance of the past to the present, and the effects of one on the other. Instruments and devices pervade the display but, rather than dry machines, they are means to understand the self in relation to society and to cultivate the personal and collective imagination. Among its many successes, the MArch programme recognises that the buildings and cities we inhabit are infused with myths, which affect how and what we perceive. A city also needs 'creative myths' that allow its inhabit­ants to understand it collectively and imagine its future. The same challenge applies to the Cork School of Architecture, as the works produced in this MArch programme so evocatively recognises."

Professor Jonathan Hill, The Bartlett, University College London (UCL)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES [Master of Architecture]

Design and develop establish first Taught Postgraduate Master of Architecture Programme in Ireland for RIAI Accreditation/Validation.

Coordination and development of Programme policy at Institutional level.

Prepare budgeting schedules for joint-Institutional funding approval.

Design and develop forward planning principles.

Coordination of scheduling of teaching personnel.

Synthesise syllabus and curricular development,  and oversee Course admissions, teaching, awards, exhibitions and publicity.

Responsible for coordination of course in line with Professional Bodies Accreditation.

SUMMARY OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE

[ Postgraduate Level ]

• MArch Design Studio Leader- Years: 2011-2014

• MArch Lecturer in History and Theory [Contextual Studies]- Years: 2013-2014

• MArch Lecturer in History and Theory [Thesis and Dissemination]- Years: 2011-2014

• MArch Lecturer in Transformative Technologies- Years: 2012-2013

[ Undergraduate Level ]

• Lecturer in Architectural History + Theory [Year 2]- Years: 2009-2014

• Dissertation Supervisor [Year 4]- Years: 2010-2012

• Design Studio Tutor [Year 1]- Years: 2009-2011

MODULE COORDINATOR ROLES

Postgraduate Level [MArch]

• AT6011: Cultures and Context(s)

• AT6013: Design Thesis Formation

• AT6014: Design Thesis

• AT6015: Thesis Exhibition and Implementation

• AT6016: Thesis Documentation and Dissemination

Undergraduate Level [BSc Hons Arch]

• AT2008 (History + Theory, Year 2)