Emmett Scanlon looks at the award-winning work of architect and teacher Robert Bourke
The notion of who or what is emerging in architecture can often be fluid and vague. In 2012, when Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects won the Silver Lion award for emerging architects at the Venice Architecture Biennale, 33 years into their career, it was a reminder that, while new voices can emerge suddenly, most architects arrive when they are ready. Established in Dublin in 2008 and awarded the RIAI Emerging Architect Award in 2014, Robert Bourke’s 2019 award-winning extension to a holiday home in Riverchapel, Co Wexford, leaves no doubt that, as an architect, Bourke has arrived.
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