Chris Falconer

Chris Falconer is Marketing & Business Development Manager at CJ Falconer Architects. Since joining the practice in 2013, he has primarily led bid and tender management, alongside CJFA’s marketing, digital, and visual communications, as well as awards and editorial submissions. Working closely with the Partners and wider team, he communicates the practice’s architectural work, experience, and capabilities to clients, collaborators, and the wider profession.

Prior to joining CJFA, Chris worked with a number of prominent cultural institutions, including the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Lismore Castle Arts, and University College Cork’s Glucksman Gallery. He holds a BA in Art History and English, and an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art and Architectural History from University College Cork, a Professional Diploma in Graphic Design with Distinction, and a First Class Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Media with Business Analytics from South East Technological University.

Chris has authored or contributed to a number of features on CJFA’s practice or projects, including for Architecture Ireland (The Journal of the RIAI), Plan Magazine, and ArchIdea. He has also presented research at symposia on architectural history and digital art, including papers on architect and designer Eileen Gray, and digital art in Ireland. In 2012, he received a Culture Ireland Travel Bursary supporting independent research into modernist and contemporary architecture in Berlin, Weimar and New York.

Alongside his work at CJFA, Chris maintains multidisciplinary art practice – and his work has been commissioned by RTÉ, Luan Gallery, Garter Lane Arts Centre, and Imagine Arts Festival – and he has also had work exhibited at Lismore Castle Arts, as well as having a work ‘Officially Selected for the Waterford Film Festival in 2022. Chris is a professional member of Visual Artists Ireland, and a member of the Irish Music Rights Organisation, and member of the Irish Association of Art Historians.