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Gary A. Boyd is Professor of Architecture at Queen’s University, Belfast and Head of Architecture. 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.
His first book Hospital, Spectacle and Vice: Dublin 1745-1922 (Four Courts 2005) explored the influence of medicine, particularly obstetrics, on the development of social life, architecture and urban form in the early modern city. Ordnance: War + Architecture & Space (co-edited with Denis Linehan) (Ashgate 2013) looked at how strategies of warfare occupy and alter built and other landscapes.
He was appointed joint-curator/commissioner (with John McLaughlin) of the Irish Pavilion, for the 14th Architecture Biennale, Venice 2014. Another book, Infra-Éireann: Infrastructure and the Architectures of Modernism in Ireland 1916-2016 (Ashgate 2015) (co-edited with John McLaughlin) emerged from the research undertaken for the Venice project. It traces the impact of modern infrastructure on the cultural and architectural identity and development of the Irish State. Following this he was appointed joint-commissioner/curator 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.
Currently, 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 is also project-leader on a Getty Foundation Keeping it Modern grant (2018-19)which investigates approaches to conservation in the award-winning St Brendan's Community School, Birr, designed by Peter and Mary Doyle in the 1970s.
Other research interests include the design of housing, prefabrication in architecture, curation and the representations of architecture, aspects of designed urbanity, and the architectures of industry and other forms of production.
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Research Output
'As easy as plugging in a fire' Modernity, Morality and the Mespil
Boyd, G., 11 Dec 2019, Irish Housing Design 1950-1980: Out of the Ordinary. Boyd, G., Ward, B. & Pike, M. (eds.). Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, p. 37-62 25 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Irish Housing Design 1950-1980: Out of the Ordinary
Boyd, G. (ed.), Ward, B. (ed.) & Pike, M. (ed.), 11 Dec 2019, London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 231 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Open Access
Keeping Ireland Modern: St Brendan’s Community School, Birr at 40 - Exhibition
Boyd, G., Prendeville, T., Kavanagh, R., McLaughlin, J. & ni Mhearain, A., 08 Nov 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Becoming Atomic: The Bunker, Modernity and the City
Boyd, G. & Linehan, D., 2018, In : Architectural Research Quarterly. 22, 3, p. 241-255 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
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No Fixed Form: The Infra-Éireann – Making Ireland Modern Pavilion and the Sites of Modernity
Boyd, G. & McLaughlin, J., 12 Apr 2018, In : AJAR - Arena Journal of Architectural Research. 3, 1, p. 1-19Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
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Prizes
Co-commisioner/curator, the Irish Pavilion for the Venice biennale 2014.
Boyd, Gary Archibald (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Appointment
Co-commissioner/curator: Making Ireland Modern 1916-2016
Boyd, Gary Archibald (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Appointment
George R. Collins Fellowship
Boyd, Gary Archibald (Recipient), 2010
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Samuel H. Kress Fellowship
Boyd, Gary Archibald (Recipient), 2006
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
Keeping Ireland Modern
Gary Archibald Boyd (Programme chair), , Aoibheann ni Mhearain (Organiser), , Wessel de Jong (Keynote/plenary speaker), , Catherine Croft (Invited speaker), , Thomas Pearson (Invited speaker), , Ellen Rowley (Invited speaker), , John McLaughlin (Chair), , Irene Brophy (Organiser), , David Browne (Invited speaker), & Mary Mitchell-O'Connor (Invited speaker)
09 Nov 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Res publica: AIARG 7
Gary Archibald Boyd (Organiser), , Niek Turner (Organiser), , Agustina Martire (Member of scientific committee), , Sarah Lappin (Member of scientific committee), , Brian Ward (Member of scientific committee), , Hugh Campbell (Member of scientific committee), , Sarah Mulrooney (Member of scientific committee), & Mark Swenarton (Keynote/plenary speaker)
25 Jan 2018 → …
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Mark Swenarton
Gary Archibald Boyd (Host), & Niek Turner (Host)
25 Jan 2018
Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor
Ellis Woodman
Gary Archibald Boyd (Host), & Sarah Lappin (Host)
08 May 2017
Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting of external, non-academic visitor
Mason White
Gary Archibald Boyd (Host)
04 Sep 2017
Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting of external, non-academic visitor
Press / Media
inclusion in Archive 100 2016: no fixed form
01/12/2016
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Inclusion in Archive 100 2016: Making Ireland Modern
01/12/2016
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment