MrDaniel Sudhershan

Daniel joined University College Dublin (UCD Architecture Faculty) as a full-time member of the faculty in September 2004 to coordinate the undergraduate Architectural Technologies subject area. He is Assistant Professor (tenured) in Architecture and active in teaching, research and administration.

From Sept 2009 to Feb 2016 he served as Associate Dean of Architecture and from Feb 2016 to Sept 2020 as Associate Dean of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy and from Sept 2016 to Aug 2018 as Chair of UCD Architecture, Landscape, Planning and Environmental Policy Programme Board. In addition, he took the role of interim Head of Architecture in 2017-18.

From 2009 until August 2020 Daniel was Programme Coordinator for the BSc in Architectural Science and until August 2015 he was Programme Coordinator BArch/MArch honours degrees. His responsibilities included programme planning, enrolment as well as internationalisation. Daniel led the 2013 and the 2018 RIBA accreditation visits with the Head of Architecture as a result of which the school received full five-year accreditation for the BSc in Arch Sc and the MArch (RIBA Part I and RIBA Part II) status under RIBA International Accreditation. He was also instrumental in receiving the US Professional accreditation (NAAB International Status). UCD Architecture is the only school in the world with triple accreditation at the moment. He also developed the four year BArchSc Programme which was introduced in September 2019 and he coordinated this programme until August 2020.

Currently he is teaching Yr 1, Yr 3 and MArch Dissertation. He is also researching German Architect Hans Scharoun's school buildings as well as the influence of Adolf Arndt on post-war German Architecture. Another strand of his research focuses on teaching methods of architectural technologies and creative practice.

Daniel has held a visiting professor position at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He also took the external critic positions at the Lund University, Sweden; University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany; Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany; Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, Wales. He was also Member of the consultation panel on standards and quality of practice-based research degrees within architecture (the Higher Education and Training Awards Council and Irish Universities Quality Board). In June 2021, Daniel chaired the Peer Review Panel for National College of Art and Design's (NCAD) BA in Product Design and BA in BA in Interaction Design degree programmes.

From June 2021, Daniel is representing UCD Architecture at the Board of Architectural Education, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. From 2018, Daniel also representing UCD Architecture at the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE) Assembly.

Before joining UCD, Daniel worked at the Wales School of Architecture, Cardiff University.