Shane de Blacam: 'To become an architect you need to know how buildings evolved'

His oeuvre features libraries, churches and third-level constructions, including Munster Technological University in Cork and the dining hall at Trinity College Dublin.
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He is probably one of the most lauded and decorated architects in Ireland. But strangely enough Shane de Blacam finds buildings “really terrifying”.
The reason? “The responsibility,” he tells Irish Examiner Home. “I find that things like legacy are terrifying. And the fear of failure and durability and even straightforward things — the thing that affects everybody about architecture is water in buildings which is so destructive.”
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