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Killian O’ Dochartaigh is an Architect and a Lecturer at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. He is interested in the relationship between housing, urbanisation and contemporary sites of conflict.
Under the banner of AFO he has designed, researched, published, contributed to and curated exhibits, delivered lectures on the subject of geo-political territories within South Africa, UK , Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Northern Ireland and the USA. He has been a visiting academic at the KTH, Gothenburg, Johannesburg and KIST(Rwanda).
killian@architecturalfieldoffice.org
killian.doherty@ed.ac.uk
BIO
Following my training as an architect at Queens University and Strathclyde University I developed an interesting in social-affordable housing, leading to 10 years of practice in Dublin on a variety of co-operative housing, civic buildings, urban master -planning and competition entries between 2000-2007. In between I completed a Masters at the Architecture + Urban Research Laboratory at the KTH in Stockholm. In 2008 I travelled to New Orleans in response to the post-hurricane reconstruction where I was engaged on a number of housing, social and environmental restoration project, primarily with ex-black panther, Malik Rahim, in the Lower ninth ward of New Orleans on a number of housing, social and environmental restoration projects. Since then my work and research has been situated in the post-war reconstruction contexts of Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Liberia. From 2010-2013 I taught at the first school of Architecture in Rwanda, developing curriculum for the delivery of architectural history, theory seminars and urban-ecology design studios.
In 2014 I was awarded the Frederick Bonnart Scholarship to undertake my PhD by Design at the University College London, Bartlett School of Architecture. The purpose of The Bonnart Trust is to “establish and maintain scholarships at universities in the United Kingdom for research at the postgraduate level into the nature of racial, religious and cultural intolerance with a view to finding a means to combat it”.
COLLABORATIONS
Edward Lawrenson, Flavia Gwiza, Bosco Ndungutse, Najmeh Modarres, Jason Men, Lisa Godson, Grainne Hassett, Tadhg O’ Sullivan, Niamh Schmidke, Dorian Wiszniewski, Ana Betancour, Kerri Ní Dochartaigh, Anamika Goyal, Cassandre Nativel, Archis, MASS Architects, Light Earth Designs, GAC Collaborative, Educaid Sierra Leone, Screen Language UK, The Bartlett UCL, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, The Derry University Group, Edinburgh Caribbean Society, Prince Claus Fund, Sierra Leone Monument and Relics Commision, Rwandan Cricket Federation, Esperance Youth Group Kimisagara, Akiliah Institute for Women, Darklight Film Festival, Dublin City Council, South Dublin County Council, Kigali City Council, Bonnart Trust, Arts Council Ireland, Common Ground New Orleans, UNHCR Rwanda, Save the Children Sierra Leone, Rhineland Palitinate, The World Bank, Dutch Embassy Rwanda, Embassy of Ireland in Sierra Leone, Embassy of Sweden in Liberia, Echo-Echo Dance Company, The United Organisation for Batwa Development in Uganda (UOBDU)