Dún-na-dTuar





Catherine Blaney, BSc, MArch, RIBA PART III, ARB

Architect



Cushendall - Belfast - Dublin

Studio, 23 Mill Street, Cushendall, BT440RR

dun.na.dtuar@gmail.com



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Dún-na-dTuar is a young Architecture practice working throughout the Island of Ireland. Established in 2019.

Located rurally but international in its thinking, the studio wishes to work in a way that is informed by both the theoretical and the empirical.

Much of the studio’s portfolio of work deals with small scale interventions into old building fabric. Because of the sensitivity of this context, careful consideration of material culture, light and construction are central to the office’s way of thinking. These are considerations of everyday matter but in reflecting on the particular and the ordinary, the studio wishes to gain an understanding of things much greater.









Studio

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Studio Bio.

Catherine Blaney is a young Irish Architect and founder of Dún-na-dTuar (2019). She studied at QUB for both undergraduate and masters and has gained 6 years experience working for award winning practices in London; including David Chipperfield Architects and Coffey Architects. She qualified with professional practice in architecture in 2017 from the University of Westminster.


Registered Architect in the UK with ARB


Teaching.

Lecturer Architecture QUB

2018 - QUB March 1 and 2 Unit tutor: ‘In Time’

2018 - QUB Bsc Stage 2 and 3 - Unit tutor ‘Architecture in Diverse Landscape’

2018 - QUB Bsc Stage 3 Technology tutor 2018 - Tutor at Architecture, ‘Drawing Matter,’ summer school, Summerset

2017 - QUB March 1 and 2 Unit tutor ‘Lightforms’

2017 - QUB Bsc Stage 2 and 3 Unit tutor ‘Material Culture in Landscape’

2012 - Queen’s University Belfast, (part-time tutor and visiting critic)


Awards.

2012 - shortlisted for the President’s Silver Medal,

Models and drawings selected for RIBA Exhibition at 66 Portland Place

2012 - won the RSUA Silver Medal for top student in Ulster

2012 - work commended in the Maurice Craig Award Category, and subsequently published in AAI Awards 2011

2009 - Nominated for President’s Medal Bronze Award by the RSUA and awarded Best in School


Exhibitions Publications

2016 - Collaborated on Landscape Anomalies Published by Double Yew Press

2011 - Exhibition for Ormeau Baths August – September


Collaborators

Rachel Delargy, Denise Murray, plattenbaustudio & Joe Blaney






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history of the name


The original Dún-na-dTuar was founded in Cushendall by victorian women. These women played an instrumental part in the arts and crafts movement in the Glens of Antrim. Their work was heavily influenced by Russia (Moscow-Moyle), the Paris expo. and William Morris.


The products of this house are still held in the National Museum of Ireland (Dublin), they were exhibited in The Crystal Palace's 'Great International Exhibition' in 1851 and subsequently sold all over the world from Australia to New Zealand.


The name and the house were lost over time, with only the remnants of its foundation left in early 1990s














Images of work to follow....

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