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Pivot Points

Máirtín D’Alton reviews Pivot Points, an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Irish Architectural Archive, 45 Merrion Square.

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Modernism is Almost All Right #4: Abundance, with Concision and Equality: The Values of Ludwig Hilberseimer’s Rational Modernism

If discussed at all today, Ludwig Hilberseimer's late European and American work is identified as a precursor of contemporary ecological approaches to the city. Scott Colman suggests that his theory of architecture and his approach to design have broader implications – not because Hilberseimer was free of modernist problematics, but because he squarely confronted them.

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Absolute Wasters / Outside In

Peter O’Grady reviews 'Absolute Wasters', a panel discussion between Tanad Aaron, Ciarán Cuffe, Jane Larmour, Ste Murray and Orla O’Kane. The discussion was chaired by Professor Hugh Campbell and organised by UCD student curators. The event was held on Friday May 22nd as part of the opening night of 'Outside In', the UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy’s annual end-of-year exhibition.

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Is creativity what makes us human?

Creativity has long been the human capacity we considered beyond the reach of any machine. Most can agree that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has crossed the threshold of being on the periphery to our work and is now embedding itself into our thinking, our workflows, and our society. As these shifts begin influencing the creative industries, we have to ask: what truly changes, and is creativity still what makes us human?

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Future Reference
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RIAI Bulletin 44

Editor: J. Owen Lewis.
Journal
€ 4.75 

Beginning in 1972, the RIAI Bulletin was a monthly newsletter to inform Institute members of the wide range of matters with which the RIAI was involved.

Riordan Kavanagh O’Reilly, Maoliosa O’Flynn, Comment, RIAI Reports, Diary, Cryptoporticus and Partners, Hardcore, Review, Crisis in the Industry, House of Today, RIAI Conference 1983, Brick in the Irish Context, Kevin Roche, Microcomputer, Theses, Art in Architecture, RIAI Medal for Housing, The decline of the building industry, The first national house of today, Council, Letter to Taoiseach, Annual Dinner, Rates for Wages, Emoluments, and Expenses, RIAI Practice Notice, Public Sector Fees, IABS, Irish Architects’ Benevolent Society, Fireplaces in 8 Merrion Square, The signing of buildings, News from the Schools, Bolton Street, International Prize for Architecture 1983-1984 of the Belgian National Housing Institute, Passive Solar Design, Rooflighting Design Competition, Adrian Smith, John O’Reilly, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, Royal Hibernian Academy, AAI, Architectural Association ireland, decline, recession, unemployment, brick, exhibition,
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2ha: the journal of suburban design #10

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
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€ 4.00 

2ha #10 considers the impact of capital on the shaping of suburban space. Three essays describe how the architecture, society, and culture of a city can be influenced by the flows of finance.

capital, suburbia, money, finance, transactional urbanism, consumerism, social infrastructure, developers, REITs, IKEA, socio-spatial segregation, townships, suburban speculation, Maastricht, Cherrywood, Phnom Penh, Den Haag, Clontarf, Rathgar, Victorian Dublin, a cost for living
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RIAI Bulletin 6

Editor: Peter Ferguson.
Journal
€ 4.75 

Beginning in 1972, the RIAI Bulletin was a monthly newsletter to inform Institute members of the wide range of matters with which the RIAI was involved.

Ordinary General Meeting, OGM of the RIAI, President’s Report, Honorary Treasurer’s Statement, Annual Report of the Council, Presentation of Certificates, Election of Council for 1974, EEC Affairs, EAHY 1975, Selection of consultants, CAA Ottawa Conference, Honorary Secretary’s Report, New Arts Council, UIA Conference 1981, Purchase of Watercolour, UN Economic Commission for Europe, Irish Architecture in Tradition, The Distinctive Nature of Irish Architecture, The Making of an Architect, Comments from a citizen, 1974 Congress, RS Reynolds Memorial Award, RIBA Architecture Awards, Belgian Housing Committee, RIAI Conference, Local Authority, Arts Council, post office, Design Competition, Boland’s Mill, John O’Gorman, Scale of Fees, UN, Economic Commission, Membership, RIAI Annual Conference, Dr. Maurice Craig, Architecture Awards, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committees, AGM, minutes, meeting minutes, exhibition, competition, symposium, materials, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, CAA, Congress, RIBA, E.E.C. Affairs, EAHY 1975, President’s Report, Belgian Housing Competition, Selection of Consultants, CAA Ottawa Conference, RIAI Conference at Kilkenny, Honorary Secretary’s Report: Committees, Cork City Architect’s Post, Architects employed by Local Authorities, Election of President and Hon. Treasurer, ‍New Arts Council, Final Examination, Stage C, UIA Conference 1981, New Office Block, ‍Belgian Housing Competition,Tipperary Competition, Change of Telephone Numbers, Purchase of Watercolour, Scale of Fees, UN Economic Commission for Europe, EEC Affairs, CAA Conference Lost Property, Irish Architecture in Tradition, The Distinctive Nature of Irish Architecture, The Making of an Architect, Comments from a Citizen, Public Library of Damascus, 1974 Congress, R.S. Reynolds Memorial Award, RIBA Architecture Awards, Short Courses ‍
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2ha: the journal of suburban design #12

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
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€ 4.00 

2ha #12 considers the power of local, national, and international governance in determining suburban morphology. Three essays focus on the multiple means by which bureaucratic structures and political ideologies control the ways, rules, and regulations in which suburban development takes place.

power, suburbia, class, Victorian Dublin, townships, urbanism, town planning, periphery, new towns, Rathmines, Pembroke, Dalkey, Kilmainham, Drumcondra, Clontarf, Kingstown, Dun Laoghaire, Ballymun, Tallaght, Shannon, Adamstown, Clongriffin, Gecekondu, Istanbul, Helsinki, Rhine Valley, Barrie, a real polis is hard to find
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The Dublin Region: Advisory Plan and Final Report (Part II)

Author: Myles Wright
Book
€ 7.95 

The second of the two volumes, The Dublin Region: Advisory Plan and Final Report (Part II) examines the social, economic and physical resources of county Dublin and its environs with a view to guide the use of land and public and private building works for the following thirty years.‍

Occupation, employment, economic growth, future population, the mountains, housing need, forecast, prediction, overcrowding, unfit, port development, dublin city, dublin county, roads, road improvement, transport need, rail network, metropolitan dublin, dodder, tolka, liffey, population growth
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Architectural Survey 1971

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.

UCD, university, belfield, brutalism, church, religious, ecclesiastical, reconstruction, refurbishment, NGI, gallery, art gallery, school, education, residential, social housing, public housing, council house, ESB offices, Georgian Dublin, demolition, factory, industry, industrial, offices
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Architecture Ireland 277

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
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€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #277 focuses on topics such as the housing crisis, and celebrating O'Donnell and Tuomey's Royal Gold Medal.

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RIAI Bulletin 9

Editor: Peter Ferguson.
Journal
€ 4.75 

Beginning in 1972, the RIAI Bulletin was a monthly newsletter to inform Institute members of the wide range of matters with which the RIAI was involved.

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Empirical: 2019-2020

Editor: Kirk McCormack.
Journal
€ 11.00 

Empirical is an annual architectural research journal by TU Dublin architectural technology students exploring environmental design, digitalisation, materials, and building performance.

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Architectural Survey 1957

Editor: Luan P. Cuffe.
Journal
€ 4.75 

Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.

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RIAI Bulletin 40

Editor: J. Owen Lewis.
Journal
€ 4.75 

Beginning in 1972, the RIAI Bulletin was a monthly newsletter to inform Institute members of the wide range of matters with which the RIAI was involved.

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Architecture Ireland 272

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #272 focuses on the theme of 'the year in architecture'.

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Observation Study of Housing Estate Elements

Authors: R. Mulvihill, E. Burke, N. Byrne.
Book
€ 7.95 

This paper reports on a study investigating aspects of housing estates related to the pedestrian precinct or residential yard concept.

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streets for living: a conference on residential road design

Editor: Eoghan Brangan.
Book
€ 7.95 

Organised by an Foras Forbartha, this paper documents the proceedings of a conference on residential road design from Jury’s Hotel in Dublin in May 1976.

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UCD Architecture 2006

Editors: Gary A. Boyd, Hugh Campbell, Pierre Jolivet, Jim Murphy, Elizabeth Shotton.
Book
€ 0.00 

An annual yearbook featuring staff and student work from the UCD School of Architecture.

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Dublin School of Architecture Yearbook 2018

Editors: Carol Lawlor, Deimante Paplauskaite, Alice George, Paris Brown, Conor Grossman.
Book
€ 0.00 

An annual yearbook featuring student work from the Dublin School of Architecture, TU Dublin.

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The Relative Importance of Elements of Low Rise Housing Environments

Author: Ray Mulvihill.
Book
€ 7.95 

This working paper documents research undertaken to discover residents’ views on their housing environments to identify those elements associated with overall satisfaction and to make such information available to designers and policy makers.

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Post Industrial

Editor: Miriam Delaney.
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€ 0.00 

Post Industrial features a series of essays discussing the physical and material world of Irish industrial settlements; how these villages as worked a social spaces, while at the same time highlighting future conservation priorities.

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