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?
ReadThis 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.
ReadIn 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.
ReadIn 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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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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Domestic is a reflection on the design of domestic spaces by architect Dominic Stevens.

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

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.

This publication documents a 1983 colloquium concerned with the need for an Irish national strategic plan to provide the physical, economic, and social infrastructure required by the end of the 20th century.

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.

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.
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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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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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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 is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #270 focuses on the theme of 'reuse and adaptation'.
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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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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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An annual yearbook featuring student work from the Dublin School of Architecture, TU Dublin.
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Free Market News is a study of market towns in Ireland, featuring a collection of essays from a broad range of experts on the past, present, and future of these small-scale settlements. The book was published as part of Free Market, the Irish Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia 2018.
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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.
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An annual yearbook featuring staff and student work from the UCD School of Architecture.
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An annual yearbook featuring student work from the Dublin School of Architecture, TU Dublin.
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