Architecting the Plumbing / [presented by] Sean Mulcahy.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Mulcahy, Sean, narrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architectural design.

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (30 minutes)): sound, color

Place of Publication:

London, England: Pidgeon Digital, 1982.

Summary:

Sean Mulcahy trained as a mechanical and electrical engineer. He took his first engineering job in 1947 with the Danish services engineer, Jorgen Warming, advising the Dublin architect Michael Scott on a programme of post-war buildings in Ireland. Mulcahy's practice now extends over Britain and Ireland, with links to Denmark and Australia, and he has worked with most of the best-known British and Irish architects on hundreds of major buildings. He has lectured extensively (a number of his papers have been published) and he teaches at University College, Dublin, and Edinburgh University. Though recognising the architect as leader of the building design team, he stresses that it is useless for him to think of design form before seeking close engineering advice. The brief must include matters of performance as well as of space and budget. He illustrates his talk with some of the work he has done, and says "if architecture is art with plumbing, then you must architect the plumbing".

Contents:

Sean Mulcahy. 1982

Dublin Bus Station, By Michael Scott

Institute. Copenhagen University. Cross Section Through Laboratory

St. Catherine's College. Oxford, By Arne Jacobsen

Wills Tobacco Factory, Bristol, By SOM With Yorke Rosenberg Mardall

'Un-House' Drawing, 1965, By Reyner Banham & François Dallegret

British Library, London, By Colin St. John Wilson & Partners. Axonometric Drawing

Scottish Widows Society Insurance Co., Edinburgh By Spence Glover Ferguson. Model & Section Through Ventilated Window

'Palladio 2000'. Painting By Ludovico Luigi. 1978

Richards Laboratories. Philadelphia, By Louis Kahn. View & Diagram Of 'Servant' Towers & 'Served' Laboratories

Middlesex Polytechnic By Rock Townsend. Interior Of Glazed Mall & Section Showing Influence Of Servicing On Form Of Building

Centre Pompidou, Paris, By Piano & Rogers. Drawing Of Street Elevation

Free University, Berlin, By Candilis Josic Woods, To Explain Nature Of Services Required. Overall Plan

Free University, Berlin, By Candilis Josic Woods, To Explain Nature Of Services Required. Mulcahy's Diagram To Explain Nature Of Services Required

CEGB Offices, Harrogate, By Gillinson Barnett & Partners. System Operations Diagram

Cover Of Ralph Lebens' Guide For EEC Solar Architectural Competition Catalogue

Mesa Verde, Colorado & Nineteenth Century Spanish 'Mirador'

Ninewells Hospital, Scotland, By Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall & Partners. Aerial View & Diagrammatic Analysis Of Functions

Trinity College, Dublin Library By Ahrends Burton & Koralek

Trinity College, Dublin Arts Faculty Building By Ahrends Burton & Koralek. Interiors.

Notes:

Title from publisher's website (viewed April 23, 2021).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.