Alan Jones

Education

He was educated at Coleraine Academical Institution, Ballymena Academy and later at.

Career

In March 2016 he was made an honorary fellow of The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. In September 2015 he received unanimous approval of Royal Institute of British Architects Council to be their Vice President of for 2015-2017. From 2002 to 2006 he was a Vice President of the RSUA, in charge of its foundation wing.

From 2001 to 2002 he was Honorary

Vice President () of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He has served as a judge for Royal Institute of British Architects and RSUA awards and the prestigious Scottish Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor Andrew Doolan Prize. His own work has been awarded several times.

In May 2012 he became the President of the Royal Society of Ulster Architects for 2012-2014. Projects also include the Strabane Arts Centre, a joint project by Glenn Howells Architects, Birmingham and Alan Jones Architects.

His work has featured in various publications - Domus (Milan), Wallpaper*, Architecture Today, Blueprint, Vision (Shanghai), Hinge (Hong Kong), and the Sunday Times.

The Daily Telegraph (London) listed Jones as one of the United Kingdom"s "top notch architects". His work has also been included in technical publications including Birkhauser"s Fibre Cement: Technology and Design (2006) and the Royal Institute of British Architects Guide to Architectural Insitu Concrete (2007). Since 2008 Jones has concentrated on managing and leading the teaching of architecture in Queen"s University.

Alan Jones is a Senior Fellow at Queen"s University Belfast and became its Director of (Architecture) in August 2008, and reappointed through a competitive process in June 2015 for a further three years.

He has been invited to be a design critic at the schools of architecture in Delft, Cambridge, North London, Bath and Dublin Institute of Technology Dublin and University College Dublin.

Achievements

• He has since realised numerous projects, including the stainless steel-clad farmhouse extension at Cranfield (Royal Institute of British Architects 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. His Randalstown house received the RSUA Design Award for residential projects and an Royal Institute of British Architects Award and shortlisted for the Royal Institute of British Architects Manser Meda

Membership

He has been Director of (Architecture) at Queen"s University since 2008 and in 2015 became a nationally elected member of Royal Institute of British Architects Council. Alan has been a member of the RSUA Council from 1998 to 2006 and 2007 to the present. He was a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects Committee (2001-2012) and the Architects Council for Europe Working Group (2003-2009).

He has represented Northern Ireland on Royal Institute of British Architects Council since 2009 and has been a member of the national Royal Institute of British Architects Research and Innovation Group and Research Grants Committee since 2010.