McCullough Mulvin Architects is an architecture and urban design practice based in Dublin. Much of McCullough Mulvin Architects work has been in the design of cultural and civic buildings around Ireland, projects working to define a new public realm in a changing society, dealing with Ireland’s diffuse light and stark materiality, exploring the potential for ordinary monumentality outside and around the brief. The design of libraries and arts related buildings - for instance Source Arts Centre and Library, Thurles - is a particular expertise. Recently,McCullough Mulvin Architects have also been successfully involved in residential and PPP design-build projects. McCullough Mulvin Architects pursues architecture for very particular contexts, reflecting a specific response to site and place. There is a resonance in the juxtaposition between old things and new ones, relationships explored in projects like Waterford and Rush Libraries, the Model Arts and Niland Gallery or the Dublin Dental Hospital. McCullough Mulvin combine modern architecture and the spirit of intervention with being Conservation Grade 1 architects. Through publication, on typologies - A Lost Tradition, the process of change - Palimpsest and then on the city - Dublin: An Urban History, Niall McCullough and Valerie Mulvin have explored the context of architecture in Ireland.This work is carried through practice in projects particular to the landscape and to their home city of Dublin- houses, urban structures and public buildings that reflect the modern spirit of the city : Lincoln Place, Ussher Library TCD, IEI, St Brigid’s, The Coombe.
The range of practice is extended by teaching and research. Directors Valerie Mulvin, Niall McCullough and Ruth O Herlihy have lectured and taught in Ireland ( UCD,DIT, UL, QUB ), the UK, USA, Scandinavia, Poland, Spain ( University of La Coruna ) and in ETH, Lausanne, Switzerland
