Steve Larkin
Technological University Dublin
School of Architecture Building and Environment
Helen McFadden
Technological University Dublin
School of Architecture Building and Environment
Steve Larkin
is a practicing architect and educator. He studied architecture at University College Dublin and graduated in 2002. He became a member of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland in 2005 and established Steve Larkin Architects in 2007. Since then, the practice has been the recipient of multiple awards and commendations and has exhibited and published worldwide. Larkin is a Lecturer in Architecture at Technological University Dublin. He was an EU Marie Curie ITN ADAPT-r European Research Fellow from 2014–2015. In 2017, he received a PhD from RMIT, Melbourne for his research, “Interiorities in Oral Cultural Landscapes.” Larkin is the president of the ICOMOS Ireland National Scientific Committee for Cultural Landscapes and leads postgraduate research in Architecture and Landscape at the School of Architecture Building and Environment (SABE), Technological University Dublin.
Helen McFadden
is an architectural graduate working across practice, research, and education with a focus on natural, cultural, and legislative landscapes. In 2023, she graduated from the M.Arch. “Architecture and Landscape” unit at SABE, and subsequently went on to pursue research on coastal dynamics and wetlands. Her research-through-design thesis, “On Complex Ordinariness: A Climate-Registering Architecture at the Coast of Mayo,” continues to inform ongoing work in this area and lays the foundation for this project. She has received several scholarships, awards, and commendations for drawing, writing, research, and design. In 2023, she became a member of the All-Ireland Architectural Research Group. In 2024, she received an EU LINA Fellowship and became a member of the ICOMOS Ireland National Scientific Committee for Cultural Landscapes.