DrDerry O'Connell

Derry O'Connell is a qualified architect with master's degrees in regional and urban planning and in urban design. He has been lecturing in the university since 1996. Prior to this he worked for twenty years in practice as an architect, first with Liam McCormick and Partners, then with Dublin County Council, with Dublin Corporation and with The National Building Agency where he became Head of Urban Design.His work in architecture has attracted awards from the Philippe Rotthier Foundation, from the Alfred Toepfer Foundation, from the Irish Planning Institute and from the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland.He is a past chairperson of the Royal Town Planning Institute in Ireland and has represented Ireland on the urban affairs committee of the European Environment Bureau. He has also been a member of the advisory committee appointed to prepare Government Policy on Architecture.He has held visiting research and lecturer positions at the universities of Eindhoven and Sofia. His research and publications focus on the structure and operation of the small European town. He currently directs the Masters programme in Regional and Urban Planning.