Dr. Conor Lucey, Ph.D.

Dr. Conor Lucey is Associate Professor of architectural history in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy at University College Dublin, Ireland. He is a Board Member of the Irish Georgian Foundation, a Committee Member of the Irish Architectural Archive, and a member of the Newman House Curatorial Committee and a former President of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (2017-2020). He is the former editor of the Irish Georgian Society’s annual journal, Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies.  Dr Lucey sits on the editorial board of Vernacular Architecture and Irish Architectural & Decorative Studies journals.

Dr. Conor is a regular speaker at major international conferences devoted to art, architectural and urban histories.

Recent Publications:

2018: Building Reputations: Architecture and the Artisan, 1750–1830 (Winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock medallion of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain)

2020: “Architectural Ornament by Jee, Eginton and Co.,” The Burlington Magazine (August 2020)

2020: The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700–1900

2019: Laughing at Architecture: Architectural Histories of Humour, Satire and Wit