MsVictoria Kavanagh

Victoria Kavanagh is an architect and teacher of landscape architectural design who believes good design can elevate consciousness. From the U.S., she studied architecture at VPI&SU. She has worked in Washington DC, and in private practice in Los Angeles and Honolulu. She also worked in Berlin, before coming to Dublin in 1995. A member of the RIAI, Victoria is a director of MVK architects and teaches design in Landscape Architecture at UCD. Her professional interests are broad and general, tending toward innovation and sustainability. With regard to the specific areas of critical importance identified by UCD, my interests are parallel in the following ways: Conservation, conservation architecture, refurbishment, conversion, adaptive re-use, Landscape Architecture, design, SUDS, topography, urban design, urban ecosystems, environmentalism, natural systems, feedback forms in topography. Representation/ Visualisation, hand drawing & CAD, diagramming, graphic communication, model building, sculpture and painting, Sustainable Building, passive house, thermal modelling, green roof, SUDS, low embodied energy materials, bio-mimicry, vernacular studies, Urban Design and Housing, urban density, walk-able communities, public space design, housing retrofit, the search for an innovative urban housing typology which affords biodiversity and localization and integration of human/natural eco-systems.