We are delighted to welcome you to the launch of John Tuomey’s new memoir, Middle Quarter. A companion volume to First Quarter, Middle Quarter is a mid-career memoir that continues the story of a life in architecture. Tuomey will be introduced on the night by special guest, RTÉ culture and arts producer and editor, Clíodhna Ní Anluain.
All are welcome to attend and refreshments will be served.
Attendance is free but booking is essential.
PRAISE FOR JOHN TUOMEY
“First Quarter is beautifully balanced and crafted. A wise and lovely read.” - Anne Enright
“Beautifully rendered, carefully pared-back … modest, witty and stylish.” - Sunday Independent
ABOUT
JOHN TUOMEY and Sheila O’Donnell established O’Donnell+Tuomey in 1988. Tuomey was managing director of Group 91 Architects who designed the regeneration of Temple Bar as Dublin’s cultural quarter, completed in 1996. He was the inaugural Professor of Architectural Design at UCD from 2008 - 2019 and has taught and lectured widely in European schools of architecture and at North American universities including Harvard and Princeton. He was exhibited six times at the Venice Biennale. He is an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and in 2010 he was elected a member of Aosdána, the affiliation of creative artists in Ireland. In 2015 he was joint recipient with Sheila O’Donnell of the RIBA Royal Gold Medal and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Brunner Prize, both in recognition of a lifetime’s work.
CLÍODHNA NÍ ANLUAIN is an RTÉ culture and arts producer and editor. She currently looks after independent radio culture programmes on RTÉ Radio 1. She produced and presented ‘The Art of It’ visual art talks at Cruinniú na Cásca 2017, and ‘Altering States: 100 Years of The Arts in Ireland’ - on aspects of the arts since the foundation of the State. She edited numerous Sunday Miscellany essay and poetry anthologies (New Island 2006-2013), and produced the related RTÉ Radio programme. She also edited Reading the Future - Irish Writers in Conversation with Mike Murphy (The Lilliput Press, 2000), and was Executive Editor of A Century of Music in Ireland-1916-2016 ( New Island, 2016). She contributes to https://www.rte.ie/culture/ and is a board member and secretary of Visual Artists Ireland.