Alan Jones (architect)

Alan Montgomery Jones BSc (Hons) DAAS (Dist) RIBA FRSA (b. Derry, September 15, 1964) is an architect and academic, and a member of the RSUA Council from 1998 to 2006 and 2007 to 2010. From 2002 to 2006 he was a Vice President of the RSUA, in charge of its foundation wing. From 2001 to 2002 he was Hon Vice President (Education) of the RIBA. He has served as a judge for RIBA and RSUA awards and the Scottish RIAI Andrew Doolan Prize. His own work has been awarded several times.

Practice

Having previous experience with London-based Michael Hopkins & Partners and as an associate with David Morley Architects, Jones returned to Northern Ireland in 1998 to take up private practice as principal of Alan Jones Architects and to teach at the School of Architecture, Queens University Belfast.

He has since realised numerous projects, including the stainless steel-clad farmhouse extension at Cranfield (RIBA Award 1999); Straidhavern School; his family home in Randalstown; and an office for a coffee importer in Belfast, which received a special mention in the Architectural Association of Ireland awards 2004.

In the citation for the mention, judge Aaron Betsky said of him:

"by looking at the exciting conditions in which he works and thinking about how it could be represented in a manner that mines the meagre surroundings for maximum effect, this young architect is showing an alternative way of creating architecture"

In May 2006, the Randalstown house received the RSUA Design...
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