Bracha L. Ettinger's Matrixial Theory and Aesthetics: Matrixial Flesh and the Jouissance of Non-Life
Christina Kinsella
Subject: Material Culture
80,000-100,000 words
Changing Perspectives, Altering Perceptions: Picturing the Victorian London Street as Narrative Space
Simon Knowles
Subject: Painting
This thesis considers the many ways in which the crowded and contested London thoroughfare functioned as an urban signifier during the Victorian Period. By focusing on the discrete spaces of the real street, its location within the city, and upon the occupants and activities operating within its precinct, this thesis will argue for a synergy between the real and the represented street whereby the latter responded to the experience of the former. The street will be considered in three forms: the real street, experienced as social space; the described street, re-constructed in text; and the depicted street, re-constructed as image. Focusing primarily on the second half of the nineteenth century, the chronological framework of this thesis begins in 1851, when the conflict between the instrumental and social function of the street reached a new degree of intensity as a result of the crowds visiting the Great Exhibition. It concludes in 1900, allowing the incorporation of two areas of visual practice that are normally studied in isolation but which overlap chronologically: Victorian genre painting and the slightly later practice of Whistler and the London Impressionists, normally situated and evaluated within the context of Modernism. The principal theoretical framework of this thesis will be a socio/historical approach, utilizing, as part of this methodology, the reciprocal relation between image and text. This analytical tool is used as means to investigate the correlation between the real street and the street in its represented form, measuring the extent to which the latter provided a means to stabilize the experience of the former.
Critical Factors Influencing British Expatriates' Success on International Architectural Engineering and Construction Assignments in Sub-Saharan Africa, China, Middle East and Indian Sub-Continent
Ashwini Konanahalli
Subject: Architecture
The Celtic Revival and a National Style of Architecture
Paul F. Larmour
Subject: Architecture
The Cult and Iconography of Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe with Particular Reference to Florence 1343 to 1528
Catherine Alice Lawless
Subject: Iconography
Awareness and Concerns about Environmental Issues in Northern Irish Rural Housebuilding
Catherine J. Loughrey
Subject: Architecture, Environment
‘Made in the new Taste’: domestic neoclassicism and the Dublin building industry, 1765-1801
Conor Lucey
Subject: Architecture: Decoration
Supervisor: Dr. Christine Casey
Imitation, Novelty and Eclecticism in the Architecture of Domenichino
Wulf Lüdicke
Subject: Architecture
Supervisor: Dr. Edward McParland
This thesis is a building by building i.e. drawing by drawing analysis of Domenichino's entire architectural oeuvre. Focusing on the aspect of imitation as a concept in art theory this examination is largely structured along Domenichino’s use of iconic architectural prototypes. Such a systematic approach was necessary to trace and identify possible sources. On this basis I was able to clarify historical and regional influences, and how imitative techniques of sources led to innovation. Thereby I established a system for techniques of imitation used by Domenichino. These involved fusion, monumentalisation, contrapposto, simplification, sculptural richness of architecture, illusionism as well as romanisation of the modern and modernisation of the roman sources among other techniques. As a result a clear picture of his personal stylistic preferences for architectural-sculptural richness emerges which is in some way consistent with his painterly and decorative works but also reveals fundamental differences with regard to regional influences. In light of this, an evaluation of the influences and manifestations of art theoretical concepts of the ideal and beauty could be considered. I contrasted Domenichino’s work with contemporary trends and compared it with the achievements of high baroque architects such as Pietro da Cortona, Bernini, Carlo Rainaldi and Borromini in order to establish his unique place in early seventeenth-century. In some cases I was able to point out connections of individual works to French influences and to the Bolognese Sebastiano Serlio.
German architects in Britain and Ireland 1700–1750
Nele Luttmann
The Critical Art Institution and the Neoliberal State
Emma Mahony
Subject: Art Theory
Supervisor: Dr Declan Long
Memorials and Monuments to the Irish Famine: Commemorative Art and History
Emily Mark
Subject: Memorials and Monuments
Supervisor: Dr. Paula Murphy
Anchor of the City: A Place for the Nation: The Making of the Leinster House Cultural and Political Precinct 1815-1924
Niamh Marnham
Subject: Leinster House
80,000-100,000 words
British Imagination, Colonial Ideology and the Representation of Landscape Space in Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa
John McAleer
Subject: Landscape
Supervisor: Dr. Philip McEvansoneya
Designer Style and its Implications for Computer-Aided Design
Sylvia McBride
Subject: Architecture
Mural Paintings in Ireland 1855-1959
Joseph McBrinn
Subject: Mural Painting / Architecture
Supervisor: Dr Nicola Gordon Bowe
Images of Law and Order: Accoutrements, carriage portraits and memorials of Lords Chancellor of Ireland 1660-1860
Patricia McCabe
Location: Ireland
Supervisor: Professor McCarthy, Dr Casey and Dr Figgis
The Planning and Use of Space in Irish houses 1730-1830
Patricia McCarthy
Subject: Architecture
Supervisor: Dr. Edward McParland
Much has been written about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century country houses, in both Ireland and Britain. One of the most important books among the wealth of information about British houses is Mark Girouard's seminal work, Life in the English country house (1978), that blends the architecture of the house (the style and the plan), with its social life. Girouard shows how the plan of the house was used by those who lived in it, and by those who visited it. To date, however, there has been no such comprehensive study made of the subject as it relates to Ireland. In recent years much scholarship has been published by Irish writers on various aspects of the house, in both town and country, and it seems like a good time to redress that balance somewhat. By taking just one hundred years (1730 to 1830) as a time span, this thesis is an effort to gather some of this together, adding evidence gleaned from contemporary inventories and literature, and primary sources such as correspondence, diaries, novels and travellers' observations.
Renaissance de La Borne: A Study of the Period of Transition From Traditional Pottery-Making Village to Centre of Contemporary Ceramic Creation
Patrick M. McCoy
Subject: Ceramics
Francesco Borromini's Drawings of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in the Context of Architectural Practice in 17th-Century Rome
John McCrossan
Subject: Architecture
Supervisor: Prof. Christine Casey
Landscape History and Management of the Phoenix Park 1800-1880
John McCullen
Subject: Landscape
Supervisor: Dr. Edward McParland
Design, Use and Energy Performance: A new Perspective on "Energy Efficient" Social Housing
Jane McCullough
Subject: Architecture
Interactive Film: Extending Narrative Perspectives
Kelly McErlean
Subject: Film
Supervisor: Dr Paul O'Brien
Catholic Church Architecture and Art Industry in Ireland, 1850-1922
Caroline McGee
Subject: Architecture
Supervisor: Prof. Christine Casey
Indoor Air Quality in Selected New-Build Airtight Dwellings: A UK Case Study
Grainne McGill
Subject: Architecture, Engineering