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Who needs an architect?

In a rapidly-changing building industry, architects’ greatest contribution might not always be the production of buildings, but rather a distinctive type of creative and strategic thinking. This could be equally valuable in many other disciplines. If these soft skills are already taught in architectural education, why should architects confine themselves to traditional practice?

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One Good Idea

Modernism is Almost All Right #8: Landscapes of/for Welfare – Welfare of Landscapes: Environmental Care, Landscape and Education in Post-War Britain.

This essay argues that Brenda Colvin's approach to modernity lay in her ambition to cultivate new ways of living in partnership with nature, by fostering an understanding of ecological interdependence and a sense of responsibility for the environments on which human life depends.

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Tracing Process Knowledge

In this article, Jack O’Hagan and Bodil Eiterstraum travel to Japan to document the demolition and reconstruction of the Ise Jingu Shrine, a cyclical process that preserves traditional construction methods and subverts conventional ideas of authenticity.

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Working Hard / Hardly Working

The mainframe #2: AI and inclusive research

In the second issue of our mini-series 'the mainframe', Annamae Muldowney speaks with Rebecca Joskow, a researcher and practitioner in disability inclusion and assistive technology at the Global Disability Innovation Hub (GDI Hub), a research and practice centre driving disability innovation for a fairer world, based at University College London (UCL). They discuss AI, inclusion and the built environment.

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Future Reference
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Architecture Ireland 312

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #312 focuses on the theme of 'small works'.

Shane Cotter, James Casey, Liam McInerney, St John Walsh, Damien Curry, Stephen Mulhall, Thomas O’Brien, Ryan Kennihan, GKMP Architects, St Senan's Hospital, RIAI design competition: Bishop Lucey Park; You look forward to having that opportunity to build something, but for me, it opened a lot of questions about the kind of architecture I wanted to make; Coronavirus, construction disputes, and the Act; Aligning an architectural curriculum to the future; Urban elegance or architectural rubbish? Changing perceptions of the Georgian Dublin town house; Irish Housing Design 1950-1980: Out of the Ordinary; All that a space cannot live without; Perspective sketch of Callan Park War Memorial, Raymond McGrath, 1925
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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.

Ordinary General Meeting, OGM of the RIAI, President’s Report, Honorary Secretary’s Report, Revision of By-Laws, Presentation of Certificates, Adoption of New Entry Forms, Expulsion of a Member, Time Charge for Principals, EEC Matters, RIAI Conference, International Housing Competition, International Conference, Office of Cork City Architect, Professional Indemnity, Annual Conference of the Institute, People the Profession and the State, RIAI Gold Medal and Medal for Housing, Joint Visit to UCI, Committee of Women Architects, European Architectural Heritage Year 1975, Use of the Computer in Building Design, Exhibition of Furniture, Price Variation Clause, Arbitration Course, Investigation of Fees, Visiting Boards, Hospital Consultants, Accreditation Board, Accommodation, Committees, RIAI Gold Medal, Medal for Housing, Meeting of Salaried Members, Vacant posts, Berlin Architects and Engineers Association, UIA Congress 1981 and Seminar 1975, National Prices Commission Study, The form of contract, Retention of Imperial Units, Books on Art, Technical Staff, Travelling Scholarships, Appeal from the Library, Short Courses at University of York, Institute Building, Public Works Exhibition, Pollution, Computers and the Architect, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, AGM, minutes, meeting minutes, exhibition, competition, symposium, materials, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, CAA, members, Election, report, EEC, housing, public relations, UIA Assembly and Congress, UIA Seminar at Kazimierz (Poland), Use of the Computer in Building Design, Short Courses at the University of York, Institute of Building, Exhibition of Furniture, International Conference on Housing, Public Works Exhibition, Pollution, International Housing Competition - Brussels, Computers and the Architect, Cork City Architect, Meeting of Salaried Members, Posts Vacant, Joint Visit to UCI, Committee of Women Architects, Berlin Architects and Engineers Association, UIA Congress 1981 and Seminar 1975, National Prices and Commission Study, The Form of Contract, Retention of Imperial Units, Books on Art, Technical Staff, Travelling Scholarships, Appeal from the Library, European Architectural Heritage Year 1975, Committees, Foras Forbartha Committee, RIAI Gold Medal and Medal for Housing, Matters Arising, Honorary Treasurer’s Report, Presentation of Certificates, Adoption of New Entry Forms, President’s Report, Local Government (Planning and Development) Bill 1973, Time Charge for Principals, Price Variation Clause, Arbitration Course, Investigation of Fees, Visiting Boards, EEC Matters, RIAI Conference, International Housing Competition, Brussels, International Conference on Registration, Hospital Consultants, Accreditation Board, Office of Cork City Architect, Professional Indemnity
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Architectural Survey 1963

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

Commerce, Health, Industry, Education, Religion, Housing, Public Service, Recreation, Airport, Church, Filling Station, Showroom, Factory, School, offices, post office, government, bank, drive-in, interiors, remodelled, maisonettes, social housing, new town, urbanism, residential, hospitality, bar, mast, infrastructure, rebuilding, automation, Reconstruction, domestic, Lansdowne Road Dublin, Raheny, Dublin, Seymour Hill, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Television Headquarters, Montrose, RTE, Stillorgan, Airport, Cork, Dublin, Airport lounge, Shannon, Clare, Chief Airports’ Architect, Department of Transport and Power, Filling station, garage, Merrion, Textile factory, factory, Bray, brewery, Dunmarry, Wicklow, Car showroom, Motor showroom, Victoria Street, plastics factory, Balbriggan, school, Kilmacud, extension, offices, post office, government, bank, drive-in, interiors, remodelled, maisonettes, social housing, new town, urbanism, cootehill, Cavan, Tralee, Kerry, Holywood, home, house, private house, Drive-in bank, Raheny, Athy, Kildare, Dublin Corporation, Dublin city council, DCC, Wineshop, Bar, pub, Belfast, Television Mast, Kippure Mountain, Foundation Stone
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Architecture Ireland 306

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #306 focuses on the theme of 'Waterford'.

Patterns of space: Understanding Waterford’s urban fabric, A warehouse of ideas: The role of a school of architecture in the city, Generating urban life: Retail, culture and inhabitation, The Waterford region - How spatial thinking is shaping the country’s towns, A disruptive tradition - Waterford as a university city, Home and back again, Framework for living/thinking - On drawing as a springboard into practise, Merrion Cricket Pavilion, Ballsbridge, Policies for practise - An interview with Martin Donnelly, The workshop as a pedagogical model, What is a ‘claims made’ policy, An international context for the practise of architecture, Carlo Scarpa and Castelvecchio Revisited, Correspondence, Between nature and architecture, One matter, two minds, CoHousing Here, In her place, Complex harmonies, Creating places for people - The RIAI Town and Village toolkit, St Mary’s Parish Church, Crumlin, Richard Murphy, Martin Donnelly, Thomas O’Brien, David Leech, Sou Fujimoto, McCullough Mulvin Architects, Shaffrey Architects, McDonnell and Dixon
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2ha: the journal of suburban design #05

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #05 considers the relationship between language and suburban space. Three essays respond to the fractured process of translation that has come to define the territory of suburbia.

language, suburbia, placenames, etymology, Gaeilge, Gaelic, Irish, logainmeacha, Báile Átha Cliath, Corcaigh, Molesworth Street, Fairview, Bailte Fearainn an Oileáin Bhig, landscape, territory, an tír gan ainm
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Architecture in Ireland - vol. 1, no. 4

Editor: Tomás O’Beirne.
Journal
€ 5.95 

First published in 1978, Architecture in Ireland was a magazine which featured ‘news, views and reviews’, architecturally significant buildings, and descriptions and illustrations of proposed developments.

RIAI Annual Conference, The Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Design Seminar, Draft Provisional Standards, School and Community, No ifs or buts, Thermal Performance and Energy Use in Housing, UCC Appoints Architects, New Information Centre, Housing Needs; Foras Course, Derry Church Commended, Modular Dictionary, Chamber of Commerce on Urban Problems, York Courses, Small Firms in the Inner City, Thermal Performance and Energy Use in Housing, Department of Education, housing, news, Taoiseach’s Residence, Phoenix Park, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Institute for Industrial Research and Standards, OECD, School building, UCC, A&D Wejchert, Murray and Murray, Building Information Centre, Liam McCormick, Steelstown Church, Modular dictionary, Downes Eire, Jerome O’Connor, South Dublin Construction Co., Tidy Towns Competition, Avanti, Dux, Klaessons, Supertube, Joseph McCullough and Partners, JV Tierney & Co, Seamus Monaghan, M Loughnane, Competition for Taoiseach’s Residence, Society of Designers, Thomas Davis Memorial, Downes Eire, Jerome O’Connor
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Architecture Ireland 314

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #314 focuses on the theme of 'leisure'.

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Architecture Ireland 288

Editor: Sandra O'Connell, Noel Brady
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #288 focuses on the theme of 'place and urban design'.

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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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2ha: the journal of suburban design #02

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #02 explores the relationship between photography and suburban space. Three essays respond to the intimate link between the medium of photography and the spaces we occupy.

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Architecture Ireland 274

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #274 focuses on the theme 'innovation in education'.

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Architecture Ireland 311

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #311 focuses on the theme of 'data'.

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The Hidden Architecture of Things

Editors: Gary A. Boyd, Gregory Keeffe.
Book
€ 0.00 

This book investigates the global architecture of commodities. It does so by examining the spaces of production and transportation of seven specific items, chosen for their ubiquity within everyday life. In doing so, we not only realise how a washing machine can relate to a banana, but also how, as architects, we might begin to design alternatives.

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20 Irish Buildings You Should Know

Editors: Róisín Bean, Tim Connell, Brian Gargan, Paul Kelly, Adam McLoughlin, Jack Prendergast.
Book
€ 0.00 

Twenty twentieth-century Irish buildings that students of architecture should know, as chosen by TU Dublin fourth-year architecture students.

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UCD Architecture 2007

Editors: Brian Ward, Pierre Jolivet, Gerry Hayden.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

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UTOPIA 7

Editor: Miriam Delaney.
Book
€ 0.00 

UTOPIA 7 is a published a study of utopian settlements in Ireland by students in the Dublin School of Architecture.

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Regional Planning: a review of regional studies

Author: Henk van der Kamp.
Book
€ 7.95 

Carried out by An Foras Forbartha, this study was conducted to develop linkages between local, regional, and national planning in Ireland.

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LINE 01

Editors: Caoimhe Power, Gabriella Brady, Helen McFadden, Lauren Forde.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

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