Inspirational Landscapes, Liam McCormick

My connection to the work of Liam McCormick was influenced by my father who, in 1958, as a newly qualified architect, worked in Liam McCormick’s office in Derry.

I grew up familiar with McCormick’s Donegal churches, and I wrote a dissertation about the churches while studying architecture 25 years ago.

Then 15 years ago, I revisited McCormick’s work when designing our first building.

Now I am looking at the landscape in which these churches are placed, to suggest that the influence of the landscape on his design is the reason why these buildings have endured and are loved by the communities, which considered the building radical when they were built.