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Ruairí O'Brien
Architect B.A. Dipl. Arch. (Edin.) RIBA
Born 1962 in Dublin,
Architecture studies:
Thames Polytechnic, London
University of Edinburgh
Columbia University, New York
Polytechnic of Central London
Teaching:
Architecture Workshop "Zeitweise" Kunsthalle Dresden 1995,
Architecture Workshop "Wieviel Haus braucht ein Kind", Technical University Dresden 1996,
Assistant Lecturer, University of applied sciences Dresden, 1996-2001
Lecturer "microarchitecture" University of Wismar, 2001/2002
Architecture Workshop "microarchitecture" Vaasa Polytechnik, Finland,autumn 2002
Architecture Workshop "light and word" Umea University, Sweden,autumn 2003
Visiting professor: Since 2001 at the University of Wismar
International Masters Programme, Architectural Lighting Design.
Architectural Practice:
1983-1995: architectural practices in London, New York, Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main, Dresden
1995 established the office "robarchitects"
Since 1998 freelance Cartoonist / Illustrator for the OECD Observer, Paris
1998 Initiator Erich Kästner micromuseum® Dresden,
2002 elected Director of the Erich Kästner museum board,
2000 established KunstKulturbüro "robvisions",
2001 established workplatform "Kunst für Kyoto" Sustainability in culture, art, cities and landscape.
2002 established the work circle, Children, Youth and Architecture, Northern European Bauakademie.
Architecture, art, installations, awards, exhibitions, realised projects
- Royal Academy of Arts, London (summer show/architecture drawings, 1986)
- Royal Institute of British Architects, London (national architecture student prize, a runner up "Bronze medal" 1986)
- Galerie Neue Horizonte, Frankfurt am Main (paintings,1992)
- Trade fair Leipzig (Cartoons/drawings, theme ecology, sustainable building, traffic problems etc1996)
- Kunsthalle Dresden/ LiteraturWerkstatt Pankow (painting,1997)
- Interaktiv Raum 3+4, Dance Architecture Project, Projekt Theatre Dresden. (1997)
- Kunstfoyer im Kulturrathaus Dresden (painting,1998)
- Kunsthaus Dresden (architecture and light installation, "Hologram machine", part of the "Cynet" Art festival (2000)
now part of the permanent exhibition in the science museum: Deutsches Hygiene museum Dresden
- interaktive artwork/Installation "Baustelle Deutschland" permanent collection "Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland" (House of Modern German History in Leipzig)
- Erich Kästner interactive micromuseum® opens its doors. (2000)
- 2. Prize architectural Competition Sächsische Gedenkstätte, Womens prison memorial, Hoheneck (2001)
- Market square City of Schwerin, architecture and light installation, microlightsculpture01 (Kultursommer 2002)
Now part of the permanant exhibition in the science museum "Technisches Landesmuseum
Mecklenburg/Vorpommen"
- "Museumscontainer", a mobile exhibition box for the sites of the Archaeological museum in Saxony. (2002)
- Interactive art project "thegiftgarden" empty city shop and Town hall Dresden (April/Oct 2002, to be continued)
- 1. Prize architectural competition Sächsische Gedenkstätte Ehrenhain Zeithain, prisoner of war camp (2002)
-National Exhibition design prize hbs 2002 for the Erich Kästner micromuseum® Dresden
- Zeithain interactive micromuseum ® (opened June 2003)
- Architecture and light, performance, BARDINALE ® International Poetry festival Dresden (June 2003)
- "Stadtspeicher" Jena 1. microarchitectural implantation exhibition,10 years city archaeology, city planning regeneration (July/Oct 2003)
- "Stadtspeicher" Jena, long term architectural revitalisation and cultural/economic development of a medieval building storage house situated on the Market square. (2002-2005)
- "Betonzeitschiene" Pre-cast concrete slab museum, a landscape/art project on the derelict inner city site of a concrete housing factory, "Plattenbauwerkstatt" (2002-2004)
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