Merritt Bucholz is an American architect who has set up practice in Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 with his partner Karen McEvoy. He lectures frequently in various universities in Europe and America.

Education

He attended Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

 (B.Arch 1993), and Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

 (M.Arch 1995).

Work

• Emilio Ambasz & Associates, 1990–92;
• Paris offices of James Stewart Polshek, Ricardo Bofill and Michel W Kagan, 1992–94;
• A&D Wejchert 1995.

Lecturing

• Inaugural Professor of Architecture at the University of Limerick
  University of Limerick
  The University of Limerick is a university in Ireland near the city of Limerick on the island's west coast. It was established in 1972 as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick and became a university by statute in 1989 in accordance with the University of Limerick Act 1989...
  
  , 2005–Present;

Formerly

• Visiting professor at Harvard University
  Harvard University
  Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
  
  ;
• Visiting lecturer at Princeton University, Cornell University, University College Dublin
  University College Dublin
  University College Dublin ) - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin is the Republic of Ireland's largest, and Ireland's second largest, university, with over 1,300 faculty and 17,000 students...
  
  , and Dublin Institute of Technology
  Dublin Institute of Technology
  Dublin Institute of Technology was established officially in 1992 under the but had been previously set up in 1978 on an ad-hoc basis. The institution can trace its origins back to 1887 with the establishment of various technical institutions in Dublin, Ireland...
  
  ;
• External examiner at Waterford Institute of Technology
  Waterford Institute of Technology
  Waterford Institute of Technology is a state funded third-level educational institution situated in the city of Waterford, Ireland. The Institute has six Schools and 16 Departments....
  
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Bucholz | McEvoy Architects

Bucholz | McEvoy Architects were set up by Merritt and his partner Karen in Dublin (1996).

Notable Projects

• Elm Park Urban Quarter, Dublin.
• Leinster House
  Leinster House
  Leinster House is the name of the building housing the Oireachtas, the national parliament of Ireland.Leinster House was originally the ducal palace of the Dukes of Leinster. Since 1922, it is a complex of buildings, of which the former ducal palace is the core, which house Oireachtas Éireann, its...
  
  Pavilions, Dublin
• SAP Building, Galway
• Westmeath County Council Headquarters
• City Arts Tower, Dublin
• Westmeath County Council Civic Offices
• Cork Civic Offices
• Cherry Orchard Tower
• Environmental Research Institute, UCC
• Limerick County Council Headquarters
• SAP Building, Dublin
• Welcoming Pavilions, Government Buildings, Dublin
• Fingal County Hall
• Universite Paris VII
• Denis Diderot Biology Laboratory, Paris (competition)
• Exhibita Research Project
• Mueso del Prado Extension (competition)
• Smithfield Urban Space
• Hartstonge House, Limerick
• Lottum Work + Living, Berlin, Germany.

External links

• Official site
• UL Architecture site