Desmond FitzGerald (architect)

[1] FitzGerald's first job was with the Department of Industry and Commerce, where he led the design team for the new terminal building at Dublin Airport from 1937.

[6] He was appointed president of the Architects Association of Ireland, and established his own architectural practice on Merrion Square, Dublin.

From there, he designed the Moyne Institute, Trinity College Dublin in 1953, a compromise of modernism and traditionalism.

Known for his cost control and business acumen, he was the designer of a large number of office and residential developments throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

He was appointed professor of architecture at UCD in 1951, and is broadly seen as ineffective in that position overseeing a period which lacked innovation or direction.

They campaigned successfully to have him replaced, and in 1969 he stepped down from the professorship and was appointed as research chair of architecture and town planning, a newly created position.