Ruairí O'Brien

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Ruairí O'Brien (* 1962 in Dublin ) is an Irish architect, lighting designer and artist.

Life

O'Brien grew up in Dublin (Ireland) and attended Blackrock College there . He then studied architecture at the University of Greenwich and the University of Westminster in London , at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh and at Columbia University in New York . He gained professional experience as a project architect in London, New York, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Dresden and Berlin.

He is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects , a member of the Chamber of Architects of Saxony, was a member of the Professional Lighting Designer's Association (PLDA) until 2013 and has been Vice President of the Federation of International Lighting Designers (FILD) since 2014.

In 1995, O'Brien founded the architecture office "robarchitects", which was later supplemented by "robvisions". The studio “robvisions” combined O'Brien's art and cultural projects. Since 2009 the architectural office has been operating under the name “Ruairí O'Brien. Architecture. Light. Raumkunst. ”. In 2010 he founded the lighting planning company "archevolucio Ltd." (since 2015 operating under the name "Ruairí O'Brien. Lighting design.") And in 2014 the "Mobile School of Lighting Design". O'Brien is also an occasional freelance cartoonist and writer for the OECD Observer.

O'Brien has lived and worked in Germany since 1991. He lives with his family in a self-designed low-energy house in the Kaditz district of Dresden .

Others

O'Brien has been Associate Professor for Architecture & Visual Design at the German University in Cairo since 2017 .

As a guest professor, O'Brien helped set up the international master's degree in Architectural Lighting Design at the University of Wismar from 2001–2005. - Ruairí O'Brien was president of the international Erich Kästner Society from 2011 to 2013 and is chairman of the board of the association for the Erich Kästner Museum in Dresden. O'Brien created the concept of temporarily located in Dresden plate Museum concrete timeline, which was removed in 2007, three years after opening. He was also active as a member of the working group for the development of the cultural model of the city of Dresden and founder of the working group for children and architecture in the Building Academy of Northern Europe (2001-2005).

His contribution to the competition for the European Center for Education and Culture Zgorzelec / Görlitz - Meetingpoint Music Messiaen won first prize in 2009, but was "... excluded for formal reasons because of non-compliance with the competition conditions ..." O'Brien sued the Meetingpoint Music Messiaen eV to payment for the design services commissioned after the competition. In 2013, the Görlitz district court passed a basic judgment in favor of O'Brien.

From 2013 to 2017, O'Brien was a board member of the Saxony Chamber of Architects and Chairman of the Public Relations Committee of the Saxony Chamber of Architects.

Works (selection)

Architecture / lighting design / urban planning
Hologram facade Jena - Markt 16 (Architect: Ruairí O'Brien)
Light mast with daylight effect and indirect lighting, market square Freiberg / Saxony (architect / lighting designer: Ruairí O'Brien)
  • Lighting master plan Bahnhofstrasse Lichtenrade, Berlin (2018)
  • Design Guide Bahnhofstrasse Lichtenrade, Berlin (2017)
  • Bramsch House in Dresden-Friedrichstadt (2014)
  • Lighting design at Bäckerstraße in Torgau, Saxony (2012)
  • Design and lighting planning of the historic Obermarkt Freiberg, Saxony (2011)
  • Hologram facade of Jena city storage facility at Markt 16, Jena / Thuringia (2008)
  • House Evolucio - modular concept architect house for everyone (2007).
Museum / memorial / exhibition
  • Memorial wall " Slaughterhouse-Five " - Kurt Vonnegut in the Dresden / Saxony exhibition center (2012)
  • "Museum Laboratory" - interactive laboratory and experiment room in which the participants were able to understand the history of the museum on the occasion of the anniversary "450 years of the Dresden State Art Collections", Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (2010)
  • Light and information sculpture "89" (2009) for the Leipzig Festival of Lights 2009 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Peaceful Revolution in Leipzig / Saxony
  • "Himmelweit" - Exhibition for the 20th anniversary of the Peaceful Revolution in the Bautzner Strasse Memorial in Dresden (2009)
  • "Traveling micromuseum Exhibition" - traveling exhibition for the Erich Kästner Museum Dresden, which so far has been to Tokyo / Japan (2005), Salzburg / Austria (2006), London / UK (2007/2008), Omsk / Russia (2013) and Washington, DC / USA (2014) traveled
  • "Garden Post - Prince Pückler in England - England in Bad Muskau" Special exhibition in the New Palace of the Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau / Saxony (2005)
  • Zeithain Memorial Grove, Stalag IV H , Zeithain / Saxony (2003)
  • Concrete Timeline -micromuseum for prefabricated buildings, city history and city identity in Dresden / Saxony (2002–2005)
  • "The Virtual Human" for the German Hygiene Museum Dresden (project for EXPO 2000)
  • Erich Kästner Museum - "mobile interactive micromuseum", Villa Augustin on Albertplatz, Dresden / Saxony (1999)
Zeithain Memorial Grove (Saxony) - walk-in showcase (exhibition architecture, photo: Ruairí O'Brien)
Erich Kästner Museum - mobile, interactive micromuseum (architect: Ruairí O'Brien)
Art / light art / light poetry / theater projects
  • Light master plan Poetika at the Luminale (2010/2012) in Frankfurt am Main / Hessen
  • "Arcades Project" light poetry performance as homage to Walter Benjamin 's work on Bardinale Flows with the composer and musician Günter Heinz and the video and media artist Konstantinos Antonios Goutos in the Blue Factory in Dresden (2009)
  • "8 windows 9 doors" - light culture for the 20th anniversary of the Peaceful Revolution in the Bautzner Strasse memorial in Dresden (2009).
  • "microlightsculpture 09 - fire" - light sculpture in homage to the poet Elke Erb for Bardinale flows in Dresden (2008)
  • "Himmelsfenster" - light poetic sculpture for Lucas Cranach in Kronach / Bavaria (2008)
  • "Day + Night" light poetry performance as homage to Samuel Beckett on the Bardini with Light and Word as a performance in public space in Dresden (2006)
  • "Cities by the Sea" light poetry performance for the bardals in the Staatsschauspiel / Kleines Haus Dresden with Ronald Lippok (sound) and Thomas Kunst (text), Dresden (2005)
Light poetry performance "Cities by the Sea", Staatsschauspiel Dresden / Kleines Haus, 2005 (light artist: Ruairí O'Brien)
  • "Eating the light" - light sculpture to enliven the Lingner Castle in Dresden (2005)
  • Light poetry festival "Light and Word" (since 2004)
  • "Eis + Finsternis" light poetry performance in homage to Christoph Ransmayr on the Bardini with Light an Word in the barn in Dresden (2004)
  • "Invisible Cities" light poetry performance in homage to Italo Calvino on the Bardini on the Augustus Bridge and in the Barn, Dresden (2003)
  • "microlightsculpture 02" - light sculpture in homage to the Danish poet Inger Christensen , Dresden (2002)
Microlightsculpture 02 - Homage to Inger Christensen, 2002 (light artist: Ruairí O'Brien)
  • "microlightsculpture 01" - light sculpture for the Schwerin cultural summer, Schwerin / Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (2002)
  • The GiftGarden - growing, interactive social art work (since 2002) on the subject of environmental policy
  • "Construction site Germany" as part of the permanent exhibition in the Contemporary History Forum Leipzig (2000)
  • "Interactive Room 3 + 4" - Architecture-Theater-Dance-Project in the Project Theater Dresden (1998)

Exhibitions

  • 2016 - "Two manuscripts, entangled" - Winter Show 2016, joint exhibition by Ruairí O'Brien & Niels-Christian Fritsche, House of Architects, Dresden
  • 2015 - Licht / Light , works on paper, objects, light art, Galerie Oben , Chemnitz
  • 2015 - light and darkness , works on paper, objects, light art for the bardals "Africa", Literaturhaus Dresden
  • 2015 - Duality , light art, as part of the exhibition "28 Days of Darkness" Architectural Summer Saxony, Tapetenwerk Leipzig
  • 2007 - microTESTATMENT , interdisciplinary retrospective with drawings-painting-architecture-light art, Blue Factory, Dresden,
  • 1999 - Paintings - Spatial Workshop , painting, Kulturrathaus Dresden,
  • 1997 - The sweetness of the foreign , painting, Kunsthalle Dresden and literary workshop Berlin,
  • 1987 - Pen and ink drawings , Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition, London

Awards

  • 2009 - Architektourpreis 2009 (recognition) for the hologram facade Stadtspeicher in Jena,
  • 2002 - Museum award of the hbs culture fund in the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation for the Erich Kästner Museum

literature

  • R. O'Brien (2018): Let's Talk About Good Street Lighting! In: F. Bodenhaupt, F. Lindemuth (Ed.). Technical manual for street and outdoor lighting, Berlin, EW Medien und Kongresse GmbH.
  • R. O'Brien (2016): High Quality Lighting Designs with SSL- Practical examples and the new role of lighting designers, Conference publication LED Lighting Technologies - Smart Technologies for Lighting Innovations, 94-105, Dornbirn, Luger Research eU Institute for Innovation and Technology.
  • I. Convery, G. Corsane & P. ​​Davis (Eds.): Displaced Heritage. Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2016, ISBN 978-1-84383-963-7 .
  • R. O'Brien (2009): “Holistic” message - the hologram facade of the Jena city storage facility, In: Neues Museum, 08/4-Feb2009, Museum Association Austria (Ed.).
  • R. Edmondson, H. Rau (Eds.): Environmental Argument and Cultural Difference: Locations, Fractures and Deliberations. Peter Lang, Bern 2008, ISBN 978-3-03911-062-9 .
  • A. Mead: Seeing the Light. Memory matters. Ruairí O'Brien's museums. In: The Architect's Journal. London, July 17, 2003.
  • I. Mazzoni (2002): Small Worlds, In: Deutsche Bauzeitung, 11/2002, Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt.
  • A. Mead: Dresden's outdoor museum fusion. In: The Architect's Journal. London, July 30, 2004.
  • R. O'Brien: micromuseums. Dresden 2003, ISBN 3-00-012918-9 .
  • G. Walden: That is the positive. Kästner Museum in Dresden. In: Builder. 6/00, 14.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ O'Brien, Ruairi. Chamber of Architects of Saxony, accessed on March 8, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Board of Directors. Chamber of Architects of Saxony, accessed on March 8, 2015 .
  3. ↑ fild. Federation of International Lighting Designers eV, accessed on March 8, 2015 .
  4. ↑ MSLD - light, light design, light planning, concepts for light and color. Mobile School of Lighting Design Ltd., accessed March 8, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Splashfreespaghetti. Ruairí O'Brien, accessed July 13, 2015 .
  6. ^ Japan's radiant architecture. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 2014, accessed February 24, 2015 .
  7. ^ Changing course to responsible fisheries. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 2011, accessed February 24, 2015 .
  8. ^ German University in Cairo - Professors. German University in Cairo, accessed on July 17, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Promote maintenance of the works and inspire young people. Erich Kästner Gesellschaft eV, accessed on April 24, 2012 .
  10. ↑ In: The builder. 5/2014, p. 24.
  11. ↑ Christian Wendt: The light went on in Bäckerstrasse. In: Torgauer Zeitung. November 24, 2014.
  12. ↑ New lighting on the historic Freiberg market square. Hüthig GmbH, February 24, 2012, accessed on March 8, 2015 .
  13. ^ Hologram façade City Warehouse Jena. Chamber of Architects of Thuringia, accessed on March 8, 2015 .
  14. ^ City of Jena (ed.): Architecture in Jena. Rostock, Hinstorff 2010, ISBN 978-3-356-01385-6 .
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  16. ↑ Leipzig. The city with no limits .: Harbingers of the Festival of Lights: information sculpture by the artist Ruairí O'Brien installed. Leipzig Tourismus und Marketing GmbH, November 11, 2009, accessed on March 8, 2015 (English).
  17. ^ Leipzig Tourismus, Marketing GmbH (ed.): Leipzig Festival of Lights - 20 years after the Peaceful Revolution. Leipziger Medien Service, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-9811948-9-0 .
  18. ↑ P. Skyba, S. Schönfelder, S. Richter (Ed.): Heaven wide equal? - Europe's '89. Baerens + Fuss, Schwerin 2010, pp. 100-104.
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  20. ^ Journal of the Varnhagen Society 14. Varnhagen Gesellschaft e. V., November 6, 2004, accessed June 23, 2015 .
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  22. ↑ Permanent exhibition of the Zeithain Memorial Grove. Saxon Memorials Foundation in memory of the victims of political tyranny, accessed on March 6, 2019 .
  23. ^ Information sheet of the state capital Dresden, cultural office. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; accessed on May 10, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.betonzeitschiene.de
  24. ↑ dhmd. German Hygiene Museum, accessed on July 12, 2015 .
  25. ↑ luminapolis. Westermann Kommunikation Gesellschaft für Publizistik mbH, accessed on March 8, 2015 .
  26. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / devekm.ibp-dresden.de
  27. ↑ a dresden experiment. Vimeo, konstantinos-antonios goutos, October 1, 2009, accessed on July 12, 2015 (English).
  28. ↑ a b versalia.de - The literature portal. (No longer available online.) Arne-Wigand Baganz, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 8, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.versalia.de
  29. ↑ Kronach Creativ. (No longer available online.) Kronach Creativ e. V., archived from the original on June 23, 2015 ; accessed on June 23, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kronachcreativ.de
  30. ↑ Poetry is like dancing - Samuel Beckett celebrates the 100th with light. ( Memento from July 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Dresdner Nachrichten. 18th week / 5th May 2006, p. 2.
  31. ^ Dresden Official Gazette. No. 21/2005, p. 6.
  32. ↑ Light in the castle. Dresden Latest News, July 18, 2005, accessed on July 18, 2015 .
  33. ↑ Funded projects archive 2006. Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, accessed on July 12, 2015 .
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  36. ↑ The cultural summer starts - Schwerin NEWS. web-mv.de - regional online services, June 7, 2002, accessed on July 18, 2015 .
  37. ↑ Documentation The Gift Garden. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 18, 2014 ; accessed on May 10, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thegiftgarden.de
  38. ↑ museumsmagazin.com. Retrieved March 8, 2015 .
  39. ↑ R. Edmondson, H. Rau (Ed.): Environmental Argument and Cultural Difference: Locations, Fractures and Deliberations. Peter Lang, Bern 2008, pp. 268–270.
  40. ^ Archive of the Blaue Fabrik eV, the artists' association blueFABRIK eV, accessed on July 21, 2015 .
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  42. ↑ NSKS. Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, accessed on July 21, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME O'Brien, Ruairí
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish architect, lighting designer and artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin