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Emmett Scanlon is an architect, writer, broadcaster and curator.

In 2023 he became the Director of the Irish Architecture Foundation, Ireland’s independent organisation for the advancement of culture and discourse in architecture.

In 2022 he founded Story, Building, an independent publisher of criticism in architecture, working in print, online and via podcast.

In 2023, he was the Artistic and Editorial Organiser of the groundbreaking 18th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, working with Curator Lesley Lokko, leading her international design and curatorial team.

In 2023 Emmett was elected as a member of the International Committee of Architecture Critics, only the second Irish critic elected to this group.

Prior to setting up independent practice in 2006, Emmett was Project Director with Grafton Architects for nine years.

Emmett is an award-winning and innovative teacher and Assistant Professor of Architecture at University College Dublin.

In 2021 he was awarded the President’s Medal for Teaching Excellence, the university’s highest teaching honour and the first practice-based professor to receive this award. He has taught and examined in schools of architecture in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Europe, and the United States.