Research output per year
Research output per year
Professor
Room 0G.034 - David Keir Building
United Kingdom
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
architectural history, cities, architecture exhibitions, war and architecture, architectural design, architecture and practice, urbanism, landscape, modernism, 20th-century heritage.
Research activity per year
Gary A. Boyd is Professor of Architecture at Queen’s University, Belfast. Graduating from the University of Strathclyde in 1997, he took academic posts in University College, Dublin and University College, Cork, before joining Queen’s in September 2013. He was Head of Architecture at Queen's from 2016-2019.
In 2018, he was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for his proposal Architecture and the Face of Coal: Mining and Modern Britain. This investigates the production of enlightened and humane approaches to architecture throughout the twentieth century as a response to the extreme conditions associated with coal mining, a critical and strategic facet of the British economy.
He was also project-leader on a Getty Foundation Keeping it Modern grant (2018-21) which investigated approaches to conservation and energy use in the award-winning St Brendan's Community School, Birr, designed by Peter and Mary Doyle in the 1970s.
In 2014, he was appointed joint curator/commissioner/designer of the Irish Pavilion, for the 14th Architecture Biennale, Venice 2014. Following this, he assumed a similar role for Making Ireland Modern, a major exhibition touring the Republic of Ireland in 2016 as one of the key strands in the Irish Arts Council's 1916-2016 cultural programme.
In 2021 he was invited to serve on the council of Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.
Other research interests include the design of housing, prefabrication in architecture, curation and the representations of architecture, aspects of designed urbanity, building conservation, and the architectures of industry and other forms of production.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Boyd, Gary Archibald (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Appointment
Boyd, Gary Archibald (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Appointment
Boyd, Gary Archibald (Recipient), 2010
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Boyd, Gary Archibald (Recipient), 30 Sep 2018
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Gary Archibald Boyd (Member of the organising committee), Brian Ward (Member of the organising committee), Sarah Mulrooney (Member of the organising committee), Cliona Brady (Member of the organising committee), Deirdre Greaney (Member of the organising committee), Niamh Hurley (Member of the organising committee) & Miriam Fitzpatrick (Member of the organising committee)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Gary Archibald Boyd (Interviewee) & Ambrose Gillick (Presenter)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Gary Archibald Boyd (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference
Gary Archibald Boyd (Participant)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference
Gary Archibald Boyd (Chair), Richard Brook (Chair), Luca Csepely Knorr (Chair) & Karin Elliot (Chair)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
01/12/2016
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
01/12/2016
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
22/08/2016
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
Gary Archibald Boyd & John McLaughlin
21/01/2016
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Gary Archibald Boyd & John McLaughlin
06/01/2016
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment