Title & Author:

Architecting the Plumbing / [presented by] Sean Mulcahy.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1982.

Description:

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

Notes:
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 -- 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.

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".

Subject:

Architectural design.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Design architectural.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.

Added entries:

Mulcahy, Sean, narrator.