An ARB Registered Architect and experienced Architectural Educator, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Aoife combines academia with practice.
adA, based in London and Ireland, is committed to finding sensitive architectural solutions that resonate with place, patiently repair, renew and augment existing settings and heritage structures, bringing fresh thinking to a range of spatial questions. Research and practice outputs focus on the generation of situated and carefully composed interventions, often born of participatory processes that engage with questions around access, equity, the democracy of space and value the experience of the user.
Current projects include adaptive reuse works to an historic house in the Lake District with an Arts & Crafts garden, a Garden & Kitchen Room addition to a tall Harlow New Town house, additions to a Wilshire village chalet-type cottage, an adaptive reuse project for a musician and filmmaker family at a former historic Methodist Church in the Wicklow Mountains National Park and a natural materials-based Safer Motherhood Unit in rural Malawi, extending and reimagining existing buildings and setting for NGO African Vision, with new accommodation, an outdoor kitchen and permaculture garden.
Aoife worked with a range of renowned design-led practices on cultural, educational and public buildings, housing, exhibition, masterplanning, landscapes and public realm projects in London & Dublin, including Adams & Sutherland, Hassett Ducatez. She has collaborated as half of the Imaginary Rock, with Jonathan Pile/ Oval, DK-CM, JMA, whilst establishing adA. A block working in the studio of Ilya Kabakov in New York has informed her practice. As graduate Architect at OPW Dublin, her work was focussed on cultural heritage sites such as the National Library of Ireland, Altamont House and Gardens Co. Laois and St Joseph’s Cottage Visitor centre, Wicklow Mountains National Park.
Course Director for the M.Arch Architecture program at Kingston School of Art since 2022, Aoife co-leads Unit 3 of the Masters, and has taught and guest lectured nationally and internationally, including in KADK Copenhagen and ZHAW Zurich. Aoife is currently External Examiner for the Northumbria School of Architecture Newcastle MArch program. She studied at the Dublin School of Architecture/ Trinity College Dublin and UP6 Paris, La Villette, completing Part 3 at UCD Dublin.
A member of the Stanley Picker Gallery board, Trustee/ Vice Chair of the Tree People/ Hackney Tree Musketeers, part of the ELWP Design circle, and a Woodcraft Folk leader. https://aseatatthetableorg.wordpress.com
