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Overuse and misuse of 'participatory' terms to describe design processes with limited stakeholder power has devalued these terms, and led to scepticism around the processes described. In deciding how to maintain, repair, and retrofit Dublin's social housing complexes, it's imperative that residents are meaningfully included in decision making, and doing so begins with open, accessible communication, argues Irene Barrenetxea Arriola.
ReadThroughout the twentieth century, modernism reconceptualised and reestablished the practice of architecture to address the key societal and environmental issues of its period. One of its central precepts was the conception of architecture as an instrument capable not only of expressing the human condition but also of actively transforming it. The male-dominated, western-centric, and energy intensive universalism of modernism has latterly been exposed, catalogued, and rightly critiqued. While acknowledging the importance of this critique, this series of articles explores the continuing relevancies of modernist architecture.
ReadIn this article, Marta Hervás Oroza examines how the redevelopment of Stephen's Green Shopping Centre has prompted a reassessment of what qualifies as heritage; as well as the role active participation plays in shaping our built environment.
ReadIn professional discussions around architecture today, renderings are the elephant in the room. They are a principal means of communicating large-scale project proposals and frequently face widespread criticism on their accuracy and ethics. As a general subject, however, they remain marginally studied. Are attacks on their realism merely hysterics, or a cause for concern?
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2ha #14 considers the ways in which public art is made and consumed within the suburbs. Four essays describe divergent approaches to project commissioning and implementation, highlighting the varied contexts and conditions that determine a work's lasting impact.
This paper reports on a study investigating aspects of housing estates related to the pedestrian precinct or residential yard concept.
2ha #11 considers the idea of architectural failure in the popular perception of suburban worlds.
Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #274 focuses on the theme of 'architecture and landscape'.
Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.
2ha #15 considers sprawl: how to define and find it, how to evaluate its impacts, and how to respond, as urban designers, to the spatial conditions that sprawl engenders.
2ha #06 considers the relationship between typology and the architecture of suburbia. Three essays respond to the evolving spatial types that define the suburbs as a coherent condition.
Read more2ha #11 considers the idea of architectural failure in the popular perception of suburban worlds.
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2ha #16 considers the edge city: collating existing analysis, offering new methods and insights, as well as proposing alternative visions of future transformation.
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Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #275 focuses on topics such as Irish modernism and contemporary Irish design.
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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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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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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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UTOPIA 7 is a published a study of utopian settlements in Ireland by students in the Dublin School of Architecture.
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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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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.
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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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An annual yearbook featuring student work from the Dublin School of Architecture, TU Dublin.
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