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Ninety-six years of Tugendhat, as viewed from Dublin

In this piece, the first in Type's new event review series, 'the write-up', Cormac Murray considers the Villa Tugendhat exhibition at the Irish Architectural Archive.

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the write-up

Listening to rivers: restoring reciprocity with waterbodies

In this article – timely, in light of recent flood events – Phoebe Brady and Sarah Doheny argue that integrating environmental resilience with public amenity and treating rivers as living stakeholders, rather than as elements of infrastructure, is essential if we are to ensure the survival of our watercourses and our ecology.

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One Good Idea

The weaving shed

Ailbhe Beatty explores the relationship between craft, culture, and heritage in Irish towns, examining how workshop spaces reveal the story of a place in ways material and immaterial.

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Working Hard / Hardly Working

Blockchain: the other AI revolution

Blockchain can offer a secure, transparent way to record agreements, and therefore holds potential across construction and property sectors, enabling real-time verification, automating payments, and improving data reliability. Yet its adoption in this context remains limited. In this article, Garry Miley discusses the possible impacts and limitations to the technology’s implementation.

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Open Space
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New Dimensions in Regional Planning: A Case Study of Ireland

Author: Jeremiah Newman.
Book
€ 7.95 

This book was the first in a series on development planning by An Foras Forbartha, and followed the first conference on regional planning ever to be held in Ireland, in May 1965.

Government of Ireland, policy, development, planning, population settlement, economic activity, social opportunity, economic foals, Maynooth College, Physical Planning, Development Committee, National Institute for Physical Planning and Construction Research,
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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.

Letterfrack, Clara, Gracehill, Sion Mills, Ballitore, Bessbrook, Portlaw, utopian religious communities, utopian village, Quakers, Moravian, Shakers, Fulneck, Fairfield, religion, religious, settlements, Christian, Herrnhut, Quaker village, Abraham Shackleton, Mary Leadbeater, French Revolution, Enlightenment, activisit utopia, Kildare, The Religious Society of Friends, market building, tannery, meeting house, school, Antrim, Herrnhaag, square, church, gendered divide, boarding school, weaving factory, town planning, Clara, Offaly, cooperative living, utopian archetype, strata, stratification, planned town, Charlestown, Clashawaun, mill, Brusna, Stirabout, Inchmore, Drayton Villa, Ballycumber, Erry Mill, Street Mill, Jute factory, Malcolmson Industry, John Skipton Mulvany, industrial town, Waterford, workers’ cottages, `workers’ houses, bowstring truss, Bessbrook, Armagh, Blarney, Cork, Harold’s Cross, Dublin, Herne, Germany, Gelsenkirchen, Clonmel, Tipperary, Carrick-on-Suir, John Grubb Richardson, Derramore, Model Village, utopian industrialism, George Cadbury, Bournville, Titus Salt, Saltaire, Lever, Port Sunlight, Rowntree, New Earswick, Sion Mills, Presbyterian, Tyrone, Herdman bothers, Great Famine, mill, New Lanark, Scotland, Utopian Socialism, Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, Henri de Saint-Simon, Activist Utopia, New Harmony, Galway, James Ellis, Mary Ellis, Connemara, Irish Famine, Quaker Central Relief Committee, workhouse, Famine workhouse, John Woolman, Quaker, Churchtown, Dublin, Edenderry, settlement, Cloughjordan, Ballitore, Eco village, Mountmellick, Rev. Nangle’s Protestant Missionary Settlement at Achill Island
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Architecture Ireland 322

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #322 focuses on the theme of ‘density’.

urbanism, urban design, city growth, urban growth, density, residential, school, education, university, theory, review, exhibition.
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Architecture Ireland 295

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #296 focuses on the theme 'education + spaces for young people'.

interview, book review, building review, education, architecture awards
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UCD Architecture 2008

Editor: Pierre Jolivet.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

Richview, drawing, collage, photography, studio, technology, scale, light, movement, functional, social, technical, aesthetic, environmental, urban, suburban, exhibition, library, social architecture, UCD, studio, college, university, architecture school, craft, construction, drawing, collage, photography, model making, collaborative, civic, urban, Suzanne Betts, Darran Brennan, Donal Browne, Henry Browne, Amy Bulman, Jo Ann Butler, Aiden Carty, Dara Challoner, Mark Choi, Robert Coleman, Patrick Conway, Keith Cormack, Alan Coughlan, Donal Crowe, Alice Devenney, Aisling Donnelly, Elaine Fanning, Andrew Flood, Robert Francis, Garrett Fullam, Garrett Garvey, Seamus Guidera, Sarah Halpenny, Nicole Hardy, Lloyd Helen, Edwin Jebb, Laura Keating, Vadim Kelly, David Kennedy, Tara Kennedy, Neil Keogh, Kate Laffan, Stephen Laverty, Ciana March, Jennifer Martin, Helena McCarthy, Caitriona McGilp, Jennifer Martin, Conor McGowan, Jennifer McLoughlin, David McMillan, Barbara McShane, Caoimhe Merrick, Cathal Monaghan, Orla Monaghan, David Morgan, Melanie O’Brien, Eileen O’Connor, Dawn Parke, Sandra Plantos, Sharon Quigley, Sharon Sugrue, Shane Twohig, Brona Waldron, Rebecca Wallace, Amy Widdis, Adrian Wong, Roisin Lewis, Noel Dowley, Jim Murphy, Samantha Martin-Mcauliffe, Silvia Forlati, Adam Hall, John Tuomey, Tom Maher, Brian Ward, Jamie Doyle, Elizabeth Burns, Sarah Cremin, Miriam Delaney, Tiago Faria, Irena Kondratenko, Mark Price, Peter Tansey, Vivienne Brophy, Gerry Cahill, Kevin Donovan, Anne Gorman, Fiona Hughes, Orla Murphy, Michael Pike, Simon Walker, Matthew Beattie, Sinead Bourke, Martin Henchion, Ryan Kennihan, Michael McGarry, Sheila O’Donnell, Sterrin O’Shea, Emmett Scanlon, Derek Tynan, David Ahearne, Aisling Ahern, Amine Ait M'hand, Eimear Arthur, Marian Balfe, Leila Budd, Moira Burke, Emma Byrne, Jarlath Cantwell, Rachel Carmody, Niall Carroll, Daniel Collins, Eimear Daly, Christina Devereux, Ray Dinh, Andrea Doyle, Rachel Dudley, Pierre- Emmanuel Escoffier, Megan Etherton, Edward Feeney, Kate Griffin, James Hayes, Michael Hayes, Leah Hogan, Matthias Horn, William Hutch, Jonathan Jannsens, Fergal Joyce, James Kennedy, Shirley Kenny, Hyung Joon Kim, Damien King, Donal Lally, Sara Madigan, Alva Maguire, Conor Maguire, Suzanne Maverley, Colm MacEochagain, Ciara McCurtin, Aonghus McDonnell, Kevin McGonigle, Patrick McGrath, Sarah McKendry, Louise Moriarty, Scott Morton, Sorcha Murphy, Stephen Murray, Fiona Nulty, Maurice O’Brien, Catriona O’Connor, Jennifer O’Donnell, Aoife O’Leary, Aisling O’Sullivan, Dina Ryan, Darren Snow, Patrick Stack, Joe Stokes-Kelly, Albert Tobin, Salvatore Borza, Darrgh Butler, Jarlath Cantwell, Dina Ryan, Robert Bruton, Ronan Dunne, Donal Lally, Niall Carroll, Sean Dunleavy, Ross Gibbons, Louise Moriarty, Paul Flynn, Russell Jacob, Sue Maverley, Warren Hayes, Ross Lally, Jennifer O’Donnell, Roisin Kilrane, Darren Louth, Leila Budd, Thomas Kinsella, Fiachra McInerney, Matthias Horn, Paul Lenihan, Daniel McNamara, Megan Etherton, Michael Lennon, Darren Moore, Sorcha Murphy, Brendan Lyons, Clodagh O’Brien, Edward Feeney, Stephen Mitchell, Harry O’Doherty, Sarah McKendry, Conor Trawinski, Brendan Scales, Colm MacEochaghain, Eoghan Looney, Oisin White, Jonathan Janssens, Fionn Tynan-O’Mahony, Daniel Wright, Fiona Nulty, Sean Dunleavy, Laura Nugent, Darren Snow, Anthony Clare, Laura Mays - GMIT Furniture College, Letterfrack and Orla Murphy, Daniel P. Sudhershan - UCD Architecture, Wendy Barrett, Will Dimond, Eileen Fitzgerald, Mary Laheen, John-Barry Lowe, Stephen Mulhall, Jim Murphy, Ruth O’Herlihy, Dermot Boyd, Jim Coady, Tiago Faria, Seán Harrington, MJ Long, Pierre Long, Donal Lynch, Niall McLaughlin, Andrew Morrison, Ciaran O’Connor, Padraig O’Duineen, Pat Ruane, Stephen Tierney, Darina Tully, Mark Turpin, Brian Ward, Barber, Timothy Brick, Lisa Cassidy, Claire Chawke, Ciaran Conlon, Alex Crean, John Crowley, Brendan Dalton, Michael Doherty, Pierre-Emmaneul Escoffier, Sean Finegan, Leonie Fitzgerald, Padraig Flynn, Denis Forrest, Alessandra Fugazzi, Katy Giblin, David Hannon, Riona Hartman, Carla-Harte Hayes, Eoin Horner, Mary Hughes, Alison Hyland, Rachael Jennings, Ralphie Keane, Sorcha Kenneally, Oriana Kraemer, Elspeth Lee, Meabh McCarthy, Dermot McGlade, Philip McGlade, Padraigh McMorrough, Cillian Magee, Brian Massey, Caitiona Moloney, Laura Moran, Conor Morrissey, Maria Mulcahy, Mark Murphy, Kieran Murray, Banbha NicCanna, Aine Nic an Riogh, Aisling NiDonnchu, Aedamair NiGallchoir, Donncha O’Brien, Luke O’Callaghan, Jennifer O’Leary, Patrick Phelan, Orla Phillips, Sarah Prendergast, Hugh Queenan, Paddy Roche, Conor Rochford, Cian Scanlon, Sean Schoales, Enida Skalonjic, Ruth Stewart, Robert Tobin, David Walsh, Su Wang, Paul Kenny, Hugh Campbell, John Olley, Tiago Faria, Brian Gallagher, Irena Kondratenko, Vivienne Brophy, Anne Gorman, Seoirse MacCraith, Donal Finn, Joseph Gannon, Pierre Long, Andrew Morrison, Rick Watson, Daniel P Sudhershan, Michael Murphy, Holger Falter, Amanda Gibney, Mark Richardson, Loughlin Kealy, Paul Arnold, Bill Hasting, Pierre Jolivet, Chris Boyle, Peter Cody, Merlo Kelly, John Tuomey, Emmett Scanlon, Stephen Tierney, Michael McGarry, Daniel Rosbottom, David Kohn, Paul Kelly, Gerard Carty, Gary Lysaght, Shane O’Toole, Michael Pike, Peter Carroll, Roisin Aherne, Jennifer Belton, Maurice Brooks, Myles Burke, William Casey, Shuo Chen, Jerome Clairoux, Elizabeth Clyne, Ludo Ditlhong, Tara Doherty, James A Doran, Paul Durcan, Tadeusz Fic, Morwenna Gerrard, Alice Gibson, Faela Guiden, T. J Hartnett, Anna Hellgren, Jack Hogan, Patrick Hunt, Lucas Jollivet, Emmet Kenny, Adrian King, David Ledwith, Aoiffe Magner, Natalie Maras, Anne McGetrick, Michael Nolan, Therese Nolan, Donal O’Herlihy, Lucy O’Reilly, Ekaterina Papakovoska, Andrzej Soloduszkiewicz, Jessica Sturmer, Aisling Walker, Ewelina Walkusz, Hanna Weber, Brendan Whelan, Richard Yates, Arnau Neus Isart, Breffni Clarke, Elaine Hanna, Laura O’Brien, Brian Hewson, Helen Kelly, Julie Leysen, Joanne Lyons, Aisling Maher, Philipp Sihertler, Timmy Blackwell, Mathias Bastian, Cristina Muros, Neil Glesson, Elaine Ni Donnchadha, Ivan O’Connell, Michael Stack, Kevin Quinlan, Laura O’Brien, Lynn McMahon, Hugh Campbell, Marcus Donaghy, John Parker, Mark Price, Tom Maher, Robin Lee, Kevin Donovan, John Olley, Irene Kelly, Tiago Faria, Brian Gallagher, Gerry Cahill, Carmel Murray, Jim Murphy, Esmonde O’Briain, Jimi Sheilds, John Mclaughlin, Shelley Mcnamara, Chris Boyle, John Tuomey, Oran O’Siochain, Roisin Heneghan, Shih-Fu Peng, Samantha Martin-McAuliffe, Dan Sudhershan, Patrick Lynch, Simon Walker, Matthias Reese, Irenée Scalbert, Paul Clarke, Elizabeth Hatz, Emmett Scanlon, Michael Pike, Derek Tynan, Dougal Sheridan, David Naessens, Stuart Mcknight, Mark Pimlott, Tom de Paor, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Howard Davies, Niall Mclaughlin, Peter Carroll, Dermot Boyd, Brian Ward, Jason O’Shaughnessy, Paul Hegarty, Emer O’Daly, Mary O’Neill, Urs Meister, Jane Ashe, Deirdre Brophy, Finn Christiansen, Eibhlin Clifford, Brian Collins, Christopher Collins, Cathal Curtin, Joaquin Dabeizes, Catherine Degroot, John Dobbin, Hugh Dolan, Michael Duffy, Cormac Fahey, Michael Fingleton, Paul Finn, Piers Floyd, Darren Gill, Brian Guckian, Brian Hagan, Diane Harrington, Clare Heffernan, John Hennigan, Grainne Keane, Orla Kennedy, David Leyden, John Lineen, Matthew Mccrum, Laura Mcdonnell, Sarah-Jane Mcgee, Deirdre Mckenna, Brendan Money, Elizabeth Mulligan, Emma Murtagh, Grainne Nestor, Celine Ni Chonchuir, Kitty O’Brien, Sorcha O’Higgins, Orla O’Loinsigh, Diarmuid O’Sullivan, Kevin O’Sullivan, Neal Patterson, Emily Power, Patrick Quinlan, John Quinn, Declan Reilly, Shane Reilly, Kate Rhatigan, Janette Scott, Brendan Sexton, Mark Skehill, Laura Sloan, Emma Spierrin, Bryan Tormey, Tim Varian, Mark Walker, Patrick White, Hugh Campbell, Marcus Donaghy, Tiago Faria, Michael Murphy, John Parker, Daniel P Sudhershan, Marcus Collier, Charles Lyons, Ciaran McNally, Michael Murphy, Simon Walker, Michael Goan, Dorothy Jones, Alan Mee, Miriam Fitzpatrick, Philip Geoghegan, Derry O Connell, Hugh Brady, Conor Norton, Michael Cregan, Michael Wall, Seamus Mc Gearailt, John Prosser, Aine Ryan, Prof. James Wyckham, Joost Beunderman, Conor Moloney, Dr Mary Gilmartin, Roisin Heneghan, Paula Russell, Martin Colreavy, Sean O'Laoire, Garry Miley, Dr. Mary Corcoran, John Mc Laughlin, Angela Rolfe, Ali Grehan, Ciaran Cuffe, Dick Gleeson, Gerry Cahill, Paul Altman, Siobhan O'Dea, Paul Arnold, Finola O Kane Crimmins, Susan Roundtree, Loughlin Kealy, John Cahill, Dr. John Olley, Mary Clark, Jackie Donnelly, Lisa Edden, Jason Ellis, Dr Aubrey Flegg, David Griffin, Aideen Ireland, Frank Keohane, Donal Lennon, Alistair Lindsay, Charlie Lyons, Daniel McInervey, Paul McMahon, M. McParland, Emily Moore, Rachel Moss, Dr. Conor Murphy, Ciaran O’Brien, Dr Freddie O Dwyer, Mona O’Rourke, Aighleann O Shaughnessy, Sara Pavia, Margaret Quinlan, Noel Riordan, Pat Ruane, Linzi Simpson, David Wall
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RIAI Bulletin 36

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.

Comment, RIAI Report, Diary, Cryptoporticus and Partners, Hardcore, President’s Inaugural Address, European Passive Solar Competition, From The Schools, Industrialisation, Review, And now for something completely different, European Architecture Students Assemble, Slide Library, Architects Ball 1982, Structures, Regs illustrated, Council, Conference 1982, Southern Report, Professional Competence Examinations, Western Report, Northern Report, Architectural Review, Francoise Henry, Frixos Joannides, Rolf Loeber, A biographical dictionary of Architects in Ireland 1600-1720, Derryhivenny Castle, Renaissance Year Exhibition, Arbitration Course, Maloney, O’Beirne, Guy + Hutchinson, Locke & Monk, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland,
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RIAI Bulletin 43

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 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'.

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Architecture Ireland 271

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 '21st century learning'.

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Architectural Survey 1954

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 24

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 287

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #287 focuses on themes of housing, Danish architecture and the Venice Biennale.

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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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The Hidden Architecture of Things

Editors: Gary A. Boyd, Gregory Keeffe.
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€ 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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A Guide to Modern Architecture in Dublin

Editor: Tomás O'Beirne.
Book
€ 9.00 

Featuring projects from 1953 to 1977, this book lays out 109 examples of modern architecture in Dublin, varying in occupation and scale, from small housing schemes and churches, to masterplan university development and city office blocks.

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The Dublin Region: Advisory Plan and Final Report (Part I)

Author: Myles Wright.
Book
€ 7.95 

The first of the two volumes, The Dublin Region: Advisory Plan and Final Report (Part I) 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.‍

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Rural

Author: Dominic Stevens.
Book
€ 5.90 

Rural is a collection of projects and essays on contemporary issues facing rural modes of inhabitations and ways to reimagine their potential future.

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UCD Architecture 2006

Editors: Gary A. Boyd, Hugh Campbell, Pierre Jolivet, Jim Murphy, Elizabeth Shotton.
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An annual yearbook featuring staff and student work from the UCD School of Architecture.

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