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Michael Hegarty
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Michael Hegarty is an architect and is a member of the RIAI Council.

Practice Having previous experience with a multi-award winning Architects practice in Scotland, Hegarty returned to Derry, Northern Ireland in 1992. He established Hegarty Architects in 1997.

He has since had numerous projects built including the Collon Bar (RIAI Regional Awards Exhibition 2005); Creggan Country Park; Void Arts Centre; The Women's Centre; and an office at 48 Clarendon St. Derry.

Current projects include the Mullingar Credit Union, Co Westmeath; Mohill Community College, Co Leitrim and Bready Ulster-Scots Cultural Centre, Co Tyrone.

He has established a working method that encourages collaboration with other disciplines - noteably visual artists and has installed integrated artworks at Derry Credit Union, The Women's Centre, The Gasworks, The Collon Bar and at Mohill Community College (in progress with Lucy Turner artist). His collaborations with Locky Morris received the Royal Society for the Arts 2001 Art & Architecture Award.

Hegarty Architects have had a number projects published in respected Architectural Journals and Magazines. The following books have been published internationally with the work of the practice:

Title: Two Minds – Artists and Architects in Collaboration Editor: Jes Fernie (2006) Publisher: Black Dog Publishing Ltd. London ISBN: 1 904772 26 9

Title: Space –Architecture for Art Editor: Gemma Tipton (2005) Publisher: Circa, Belfast ISBN: 0 9550319 0 7

[edit] Teaching Michael Hegarty taught for a number of years at the North West Institute. He remains active in architectural education and has been invited to be an occasional design critic at the University of Ulster school of architecture in Belfast.

[edit] Education Michael Hegarty was educated at Rosemount Primary School, St. Columb's College, Derry and studied architecture (Bsc & B.Arch) at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art / The University of Dundee where he received a number of school and national design awards and he graduated with first class honours. He has a post graduate diploma in Project Management from Queen's University Belfast.

[edit] References Hegarty Architects RIAI RIBA Categories: Year of birth 1966 | Living people | Northern Irish architects | People from Derry |