Andrew Clancy and Colm Moore

The Department of Architecture welcomes Andrew Clancy and Colm Moore for their lecture "Substance." This talk is a reflection on methodologies and sensibilities that underlie the work of Clancy Moore Architects.

"Ours is a practice committed to architecture as a culture and in the fundamental humanities of our discipline.

We understand practice as an infrastructure to allow us to come to terms with the contingencies of our world Making buildings is a messy process that is difficult to anticipate or structure. We adopt an open stance - accepting all of these diverse inputs as the substance of our practice.

Our studio is a place where clear intentions are subverted by careful accidents. As a consequence ours is a practice that accepts doubt as constructive and weakness as a strength. In doing so we recall architect Lino Bo Bardi and her call for ‘architecture not as built work, but as a possible means to be and to face different situations”.

Andrew Clancy and Colm Moore founded Clancy Moore Architects in 2008.

Both partners were educated in UCD Dublin and completed their PhD with RMIT in 2017, they both research and seek to advance architecture through critical enquiry and academic works.

Andrew is Professor of Architecture in the Kingston School of Art London, and guest professor in the Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio. He has written extensively about architecture and guest edited two editions of the Japanese publication A+U.

Colm directs the M’Arch programme in Queens University and teaches in the Accademia di Architeturra Mendrisio. He has lectured and reviewed extensively in places as diverse as ETH, London Met and UPenn.

Andrew and Colm co-authored a book about the Danish social housing pioneer Kay Fisker in 2022. Their next book about the social infrastructures of Hans Christian Hansen will be published in December 2026.
 

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