Tara Kennedy
Lecturer, Year 2 Design Studio Coordinator, Dissertation Coordinator, CCAE
Tara is an architect and artist (BFA, BSc, March, MRIAI). Her work includes design, teaching and collaborative research projects and she was awarded the Arts Council of Ireland Next Generation Award 2017 for Architecture. She practices independently and with John McLaughlin Architects and teaches at Cork Centre for Architectural Education. She was Co-Curator of ‘Free Market’, the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 which won an RIAI Award for research and an AAI Award in 2020. She has curated the international conference Beyond Participation with the Irish Architecture Foundation, 2018 and 2016. In 2015 she was awarded the Arts Council / Create Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award: Collaborative Arts and Architecture. Since 2008 she has been working with Jo Anne Butler as Culturstruction, an experimental, socially-engaged design studio working in the overlaps of art and architecture whose current clients include the Irish Museum of Modern Art. She was a founder and curator of Commonage, a non-profit organisation programming art and design in a rural community context.
Tara lives in Bantry, Co. Cork where she is Creative Director of the drawing studio Work Shop. She holds a BSc in Architecture (2010) and a Master of Architecture (2013) from University College Dublin and Professional Diploma UCD RIAI (2020). Prior to this she received a BFA (Sculpture) from NCAD (1st class hons, 2005).
Meet more of our team
Emma Geoghegan MRIAI
Head of Architecture, TU Dublin and SABE Lead for the Building Change project
Maroun Tabbal
Building Change Lead, Lecturer CCAE, mARCH AT6012 Coordinator, Year 2 Design Studio Tutor
Orla Murphy
Assistant Professor, Co-Director UCD Centre for Irish Towns, UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy
Oliver Kinnane
Head of School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, UCD and Associate Professor of Sustainable Building Technologies
