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Drafting Identity: My job is not my hobby

In this article, Ciara O’Connell closes our mini-series ‘Drafting Identity’ which focuses on the experience of women in Architectural Education from both personal and professional perspectives, supporting the FIAE movement. Ciara explores the pressures a career in architecture places on life outside of work, and the significant material impacts that places on women, in particular.

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Present Tense

Totems: Selected Essays on Architecture - Book Review

Kevin Donovan reviews Irénée Scalbert's book 'Totems: Selected Essays on Architecture', published by Park Books in 2026.

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Open Space

The kids are alright

Gary Hamilton reviews a lecture by REIR Studio, part of the 'Conversation Club' lecture series presented by the Office of Public Works in partnership with the National Library of Ireland. The lecture was held on Wednesday May 13th in the Joly Theatre of the National Library of Ireland.

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Modernism is Almost All Right Issue #3: Ethel Bailey Furman: A Career in Architecture

Ethel Bailey Furman's commitment to providing fellow African Americans with buildings that expressed Christian faith, economic achievement, and equal political rights in the face of Jim Crow segregation was itself modern, even if it only occasionally generated forms that were obviously so. Equally and obviously modern, argues Kathleen James-Chakraborty, was that an African American woman was designing buildings in and around the former capital of the Confederacy, and in a state which adopted a policy of Massive Resistance to school integration.

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Modernism is Almost All Right
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living in town ... conserving the future

Book
€ 7.95 

A pamphlet documenting the papers presented at the National Housing Conference held at Leopardstown, Co. Dublin, in October 1974.

Housing Committee, housing, community development, urban problems, urban issues, London, Glasgow, housing action, deprived, deprived communities, University of Durham, Department of Sociology and Social Administration, social security, EEC, EU, second-hand housing, shared dwelling, US National Commission for Urban Problems, home ownership, psychiatry, UCD, University College Dublin, The Dilemma of the Human Family, A Cycle of Growth and Decline, society, institutionalisation, corporate institution, Bethlehem Foundation, Dublin Diocesan Housing Agency, Housing Department, Dublin Corporation, Catholic Housing Aid Society, Family Housing Association, British Housing Association, housing advice centres, voluntary housing, landlord, tenant, tenure, housing pressure, central heating, voluntary housing movement, Bishop Casey, 1974 Housing Act, Clonliffe, Housing Co-ordinator, Dublin City and County, Dun Laoghaire, Assistant City Manager, Dun Laoghaire Corporation, Planning, redevelopment, historical, Compulsory Purchase, Housing Acts, Public Sworn Inquiry, CPO, public authority, placement, clearance, chairman of the housing committee, demolition, Royal Institute of Architects, Irish Builder and Engineer, Sean O’Casey, Housing grants section, Civil service, Building Societies, Planning Act, Bord Failte, Bord’s Tidy Town Competition, Building Science and Technology, Institute for Industrial Research and Standards, Irish housing, AFF, IIRS, NBA, central heating, National Energy Policy, UCG, NUIG, Sitting, Shape, Orientation, Fabric, Fenestration, Ventilation, Heating Installation, Pentagram, Industrial Designers, International Union of Architects, Congress, British Pavilion, Architecture: City Sense, The Necessary Movement, Arts Council, living in cities, Department of Environment, Shelter Neighbourhood Action Project, SNAP, Master plan, Craigavon, Craigavon Development Commission, Liverpool, General Development Area Proposals, enclave, national building agency, cost implications, design standards, performance standards, Essex Design Guide, Royal Town Planning Institute, AAI, Architectural Association of Ireland, Kildare Archaeological Society, accidental black spot, Ministry of Works, An Taisce, Patrick Shaffrey, Strathclyde, Gillespie Kidd and Coia, RIBA, Functional Order, Order of Significant Movement, Visual Order, Victorian City, Department of Architecture and Civic Design, Greater London Council, LCC, rehabilitation, syndicate discussion, economic and social costs of housing, the health aspects of town living, the problems of redevelopment, the voluntary housing movement in England and Suggestions for its Establishment here, Financial Structure, Grants and Subsidies, the implication of recent development on the design and construction of the individual housing unit, ESB, local authority housing, Ballymun, Dr. Browne, Des McConaghy, housing finance,
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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.

energy, architecture, food, water, source, origins, Anthropocene, fetish, commodities, intermodal
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RIAI Bulletin 27

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.

The Status of Membership, Council Matters reported by the General Secretary, RIAI/RIBA Relations, Hospital Fees, Northern Report, Annual Conference, Output, Employment, Occupational shortages in the Building Industry, Raymond McGrath, Kevin Fox, After Modern, This Century in Irish Architecture, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, Comment, RIAI Report, Diary, Review of the Building Industry, Lapse of Planning Permission, Architects in the Local Authority
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Architecture Ireland 270

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #270 focuses on the theme of 'reuse and adaptation'.

architecture review, conservation architecture, reuse
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Architecture Ireland 318

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
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€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #318 focuses on the theme of 'Belfast'.

9ft in common - Belfast’s hidden spaces of connection, Creed, commerce, and culture - A brief overview of Belfast’s architectural history, Nobody’s project, The need for a climate of change, Reflections from a small Belfast studio, RIAI Architecture Awards 2021, Remembering Dennis Gilbert, Ordinary buildings, well executed - An Interview with Richard Doorly MRIAI on his first five years in practise, Creating and reshaping workspaces for the next phase of COVID-19, Detail - Shandon House Dublin 7, and/or land -On the intersection between art and architecture, TGD Park M 2010 - Time for a rethink, Thinking on Paper, Urban Playground: How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities, Roadmapping a Viable Community-led Housing Sector for Ireland, As Found, Living Infrastructure, RIAI Women in Architecture 2021, Momentum, I am my own gift, Misfit, To be useful is to be beautiful, Bruder Klaus Chapel by Peter Zumthor - A narrative to building, Construction time again, Elmwood Presbyterian Church
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Architecture Ireland 279

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #279 focuses on the theme of ‘healthcare design’.

architecture review, book review, healthcare design, hospital design
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The Antique Pavement

Book
€ 4.75 

An illustrated guide to Dublin's street furniture.

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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.

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2ha: the journal of suburban design #12

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 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.

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Architecture Ireland 309

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #310 focuses on the theme of ‘obsolescence’.

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Architecture Ireland 290

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #290 focuses on topics such as architectural fees, the UTEC University in Lima and the RIAI Annual Conference.

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RIAI Bulletin 1

Editor: Kevin Fox.
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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The Sprawling Newspaper

Editors: Michelle Delea, Sarah Mulrooney, Niamh Hurley, Anastasiya Karabanava, Darren O’Connor, Grace Kiernan.
Book
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The Sprawling Newspaper emerged during the production of The Sprawling Octopus of an Elevated Highway, a documentary film which centres around a public campaign against the B.K.S. traffic plan for Cork in 1968.

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Post Industrial

Editor: Miriam Delaney.
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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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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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Office Location and Regional Development: Proceedings of a Conference

Authors: Dr. D. F. Moore, Michael B. Lawless, Michael J. Bannon, John Goddard, Bertil Thorngren, Jan Toby, George Yannopoulos.
Book
€ 7.95 

This publication documents a two-day conference from 1973 discussing office location and regional development. Topics include reviewing the existing pattern of office location, considering future policies, and referencing international practice.

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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 Bicycle: A study of efficiency, usage, and safety

Author: Dr. D. F. Moore.
Book
€ 7.95 

Financed by Irish Raleigh Ltd., this report is a general study of the efficiency, usage, and safety of the bicycle as a mode transport. As well as bicycle safety, this study considers housing estate layout in suburban areas and how it can minimise the adverse impact of motorised traffic on urban neighbourhoods.

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