Yr Athro Mhairi McVicar
PhD, NCARB (USA), M Arch, BSc Hons in Architecture Studies
Project Lead, Community Gateway
- mcvicarm@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 4634
- Adeilad Bute, Rhodfa'r Brenin Edward VII, Caerdydd, CF10 3NB
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Mhairi is one of eight university staff who developed Community Gateway during a Cardiff Futures leadership course in 2012. After studying in Scotland and Chicago, she worked in architectural practice in Chicago and London. She joined Cardiff University in 2006, and has taught in Architectural Design, Technology, and History and Theory. She is a Council member of the Royal Society of Architects in Wales, and a former Chair of the south wales branch, Design Circle, through which she coordinated several public architectural exhibitions, including 'Reflecting Wales' and 'What Architects Do.'
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Mhairi trained as an architect in the UK and USA, and has been teaching architecture at Cardiff University since 2006. Her interests include the ways in which architects can work collaboratively with people to improve the quality of their built environment.
Mhairi has a Masters of Architecture from the Illinois Institute of technology in Chicago, Illinois, USA and a First Class Honours BSc in Architecture from Robert Gordon Institute of technology, Aberdeen, Scotland. She will submit her PhD on Precision in Architectural Practice in September 2015.
For more information on Mhairi's research and publications, see: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/archi/staff/mhairi-McVicar'
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2023
- Khan, M., Nekeb, S., Smith, T., Harris, N. and McVicar, M. 2023. A Grangetown to grow up in: A children and young people's plan for Grangetown, Cardiff.. Project Report. Cardiff University.
2022
- McVicar, M., Kite, S. and Drozynski, C. eds. 2022. Generosity and architecture. Routledge.
2020
- McVicar, M. 2020. 'Engender the confidence to demand better?: the value of architects in community asset transfers. Architectural Design 90(4), pp. 46-51. (10.1002/ad.2589)
- McVicar, M. 2020. Gathering-in-action: the activation of a civic space. Architecture and Culture 8(3-4), pp. 468-483. (10.1080/20507828.2020.1798164)
2019
- McVicar, M. 2019. Precision in architecture: Certainty, ambiguity and deviation. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. (10.4324/9781315222639)
2018
- McVicar, M. and Turnbull, N. 2018. Creating common ground: the value of participatory design in articulating a common ethos for dwelling. Presented at: Cities, Communities and Homes: Is the Urban Future Livable?, Universityof Derby, 22—23 June, 2017 Presented at Tracada, E. and Cairms, G. eds.AMPS Proceedings Series 10: Cities, Communities Homes – Is the Urban Future Livable?, Vol. 10. AMPS Proceedings AMPS pp. 434-446.
- McVicar, M. and Turnbull, N. 2018. The live project in the participatory design of a common ethos. Charrette 5(2), pp. 117-135.
- McVicar, M. 2018. Deviation from the standard - the plasterboard ceiling in OMA's McCormick Tribune Campus Center. ARCH+ Magazine for Architecture and Urbanism 233, pp. 194-199.
2016
- McVicar, M. T. 2016. Precision in architectural production. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
2015
- McVicar, M. 2015. The production of the Commons: Mies van der Rohe and the art of industrial standardisation. In: Lloyd Thomas, K., Amhoff, T. and Beech, N. eds. Industries of Architecture. AHRA Critiques: Critical Studies in Architectural Humanities Vol. 11. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 49-59.
- Odgers, J., McVicar, M. and Kite, S. eds. 2015. Economy and architecture. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
- McVicar, M. 2015. An optional extra: valuing architecture at the Brompton Boilers. In: Odgers, J., McVicar, M. and Kite, S. eds. Economy and Architecture. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 151-161.
2012
- McVicar, M. T. 2012. Specifying intent at the museum of childhood. Architectural Research Quarterly 16(3), pp. 218-228. (10.1017/S1359135513000067)
- McVicar, M. T. 2012. 'God is in the details'/'The detail is moot': A meeting Between Koolhaas and Mies. In: Sharr, A. ed. Reading Architecture and Culture: Researching Buildings, Spaces and Documents. London: Routledge, pp. 165-178.
- McVicar, M. T. 2012. Reading details: Caruso St John and the poetic intent of construction documents. In: Lees-Maffei, G. ed. Writing Design: Words and Objects. London: Berg Publishers, pp. 149-161.
2011
- Kite, S., McVicar, M. T. and Odgers, J. A. eds. 2011. Economy : abstracts. Cardiff: Cardiff University, Welsh School of Architecture.
2010
- McVicar, M. T. 2010. Contested fields: perfection and compromise at Caruso St John's Museum of Childhood. In: Ewing, S. et al. eds. Architecture and Field/Work. Critiques London: Routledge, pp. 138-150.
- McVicar, M. 2010. 1:1 – Architects build small spaces. arq: Architectural Research Quarterly 14(3), pp. 195-200. (10.1017/S1359135510000965)
- McVicar, M. 2010. Passion and control: Lewerentz and a mortar joint. In: Dutoit, A., Odgers, J. and Sharr, A. eds. Quality Out of Control: Standards for Measuring Architecture. London: Routledge, pp. 92-102.
2008
- McVicar, M. T. and Suau, C. 2008. Neglectfulness in the preservation and continuity of late-modern architecture - the case of St Peter's Seminary by Gillespie, Kidd and Coia. Presented at: 10th International DOCOMOMO Conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 17-19 September 2008 Presented at van den Heuvel, D. et al. eds.The Challenge of Change: Dealing with the Legacy of the Modern Movement: Proceedings of the 10th International DOCOMOMO Conference. Amsterdam: IOS Press pp. 81-86., (10.3233/978-1-58603-917-2-81)
2007
- McVicar, M. T. 2007. Memory and progress: confessions in a flagstone wall. ARQ Architectural Research Quarterly 11(3), pp. 198-208.
- McVicar, M. T. 2007. Adaptation and continuity: mediating the regional and global in Orkney and Shetland. Presented at: 2nd International CSAAR Conference of the Center for the Study of Architecture and Urbanism, Tunis, Tunisia.
- McVicar, M. T. 2007. Inhabiting space: body, scale and performance. Presented at: Intersections: Design Education and Other Fields of Inquiry. Iowa.
2004
- McVicar, M. T. 2004. Avec Wine Bar, Chicago.
