Ireland Architects Bucholz and McEvoy to Speak At UB

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Ireland-based architects Merritt Bucholz and Karen McEvoy will present an illustrated lecture on their work at the Nov. 1 as part of the annual lecture series of the UB School of Architecture and Planning.

Their talk will take place at 5:30 p.m. in 301 Crosby Hall on UB's South (Main Street) Campus. It will free and open to the public. It will be followed by a reception for the speakers.

Chicago-born architect Bucholz and his Irish partner Karen McEvoy, are under 40, but already have produced such award-winning buildings as the $25.5 million Fingal County Hall, in Swords, Co. Fingal, and Limerick's stunning $23.6 million County Council Headquarters in Dooradoyle.

They are recognized as well for their popular glazed "welcome pavilions" for government buildings in Merrion Street, Dublin, including historic Leinster House, which houses the National Parliament of Ireland. The firm represented Ireland in the 2002 Venice Biennale

Their intensely collaborative Dublin-based practice, founded in 1996, is dedicated to sustainable architecture and closely aligned to the practice of engineering.

It has doubled in size in recent years due to the quality and visibility of its work and Ireland's architectural boom. The firm now employs 25 people at work on such projects as the huge mixed-use scheme of schools, apartments, offices and sheltered housing now under construction on a site adjoining Dublin's Elm Park golf course.

Before opening their own firm, both Bucholz and McEvoy worked for Emilio Ambasz in New York and Paris on projects in the U.S., Japan and Europe.