Tom de Paor
Tomás "Tom" de Paor (; born 1967) is an Irish architect and member of Aosdána, an Irish association of artists. Early life. De Paor was born in London in 1967 and grew up in County Clare. Architecture. de Paor studied architecture at TU Dublin (1985–88) and in UCD (1989–91), where he graduated with first class honours. In 1991 he won (with Emma O’Neill) the international competition for the design of a reception building at the Royal Gunpowder Mills at Ballincollig, County Cork, a building which won an AAI award in 1993 and an RIAI award in 1994. Since  then his public work has included works to the A13 in Barking and Dagenham in London (1996), the National Sculpture Factory Cork (1998), Comhdháil Naisiúnta na Gaeilge Dublin (1999), Clontarf Pumpstation and landscape (2007), Irish Aid Centre Dublin (2008), Druid Theatre Galway (2009), Landside Bar Dublin airport (2011) and the Pálás cinema in Galway (2017), which was awarded an AAI and RIAI award for Best Cultural Building, two Irish Concrete Society awards, two Civic Trust awards and a World Architecture Award. He has also designed various one off houses and gardens, both urban and rural, across the island of Ireland . In 2000 he was invited to design the inaugural Irish representation at the Venice Architecture Biennale and he contributed to subsequent Irish Pavilions in 2006, 2008 and in 2010, which he co-curated. He exhibited in the international pavilion in 2010 and 2018. He represented Europe in New Trends of Architecture Europe and Japan in 2001. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland and voted Young Architect of the Year by "Building Design" and Corus. In 2015 he was elected to Aosdána, and in 2017 became an International Fellow of the  Royal Institute of British Architects, only the third Irish architect to receive that honour; he was described as "the leading Irish architect of his generation." In 2022 dePaor staged the exhibition ‘i see Earth: building and ground: 1991–2021’, supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, The Irish Architecture Foundation, Visual Carlow, and curated by N. Weadick. He works with Peter Maybury under the imprint Gall. Teaching. He has been an invited lecturer and critic internationally,  teaching at UCD since graduation and various schools including Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Santiago, Chile, the Porto Academy, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design where  he was Design Critic from 2016-21 Personal life. de Paor lives and works in Greystones,Co.Wicklow.