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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

Working with the grain

Paul Maher reviews ‘The Heart of the Matter’ a lecture by Stephen Witherford of Witherford Watson Mann Architects, part of the Architectural Association of Ireland’s ‘Social Inclusivity in Architecture’ lecture series. The lecture was held on 24 September in the Robert Emmet Theatre in the Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin.

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the write-up

Girls just want to have fun: How can we design public space for teenage girls?

In this article, Sinéad Hickey discusses gender mainstreaming in urban spaces through the lense of teenager and women in sport. Sinéad explores the nature of spaces provided for teenagers, the disparity in provision for genders, and the issues affecting teenage girls use of these public spaces in particular.

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Present Tense

Urban milk

All Dubliners accept that the fair city is inseparable from James Joyce's Ulysses. Yet Joyce's novel is saturated with a hidden ingredient: milk. This industry is an essential part of our national image, but its relationship with the fabric and women of Dublin has been largely forgotten. What if we redrew Joyce’s Dublin through milk?

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One Good Idea
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RIAI Bulletin 50

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.

Holy Trinity Church Donaghmede, Church at Firhouse, Bord na Mona, UCD Restaurant, RTE Radio Building, A. & D. Wejchert, de Blacam & Meagher, Stephenson Associates, Scott Tallon Walker, The National Plan, Urban Enterprise Zones, Development in Glass, Carnegie Libraries, Notes on Glass, The Building Control Bill 1984, Images, Pictorial, Glass and Glazing, Rationalisation and the fall of man, RIAI Reports, Oh Rats!, New Products, The 1985 Budget Statement By RIAI, Saarinen - National Romantic Trends in Finnish Architecture, Concrete Practice in Ireland 1985, RIAI Bulletin 1-50, Council, Annual Conference, Building Exhibition, Extraordinary General Meeting, Northern Report, Western Report, Hardcore, Council, Council Reports, Council Ballot Results, Council for 1985, Planning, Obituaries, Liam Boyle, News from the Regions, Maurice Hogan, New Housing Ideas, Joint Labour Committee, Fellows, Construction and the National Plan, National Construction Conference, Pilkington Glass Ltd., Trinity Library, Kildare Street Club, St Columbas, PMPA, John Donat, The Window Manufacturers’ View, Richview Ball, RIAI Annual General Meeting, Construction Industry Statistics 1984, Architecture of Islamic Spain, Dun Laoghaire Plan, Georgian Dublin - Policy for Survival, Brian O’ Connell, Improving Public Housing, Architects for Peace, SAAT Launches CPD Scheme, Mountshannon County Clare, Loughlin Kealy, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, AAI, Architectural Association ireland, practise notice, UCD, University College Dublin, Bolton Street, Glass, energy, bulletin, journals
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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.

photography, suburbia, representation, visual essay, Garry Winogrand, Stephen Shore, America, medium, technology, The Cedar Room, a machine for seeing in
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Dublin School of Architecture Yearbook 2016

Editors: Philip Duffy, Anne-Lise Olivier, Julia Vivien Rober, Colin Mac Suibhne, Stephen Johnston.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

Grangegorman, TUD, Technological University for Dublin, Dublin Institute of Technology, DIT, Morrison scholarship, Architectural education, BIM, building research, architecture & community, architectural technology, QQI standard, PDAP, Leon Van Schaik, Vitruvius, thesis, theory, praxis, model making, photoshop, drawing, hut, wattle and daub, yurt, office, supermarket, mixed use, universal access, BIM model, legislation, Parker Morris, studio typology, minimum space, DCC, dwelling, Galway city, suburban edge, joinery, jewellery box, marquetry panel, metaphysical subtleties, architectural habitus, style council, stylistic hierarchies, economic base, architectural superstructure, architectural ideology, Heideggers, thesis, Henry J Lyons, Noonan Moran Architects, Bluett O’Donoghue Architects, NDBA Architects, Moloney O’Beirne Architects (MOB), O’Keeffe Architects, Scott Tallon Walker Architects (STW), Teroco, Carey Associates Architects – Project Managers & Energy, O’Mahony Pike Architects (OMP), Conroy Crowe Kelly Architects & Urban Designers (CCK), O’Connell Mahon, David Wright Architects, Jones Engineering, Niall Smith Architects, Robinson Keefe & Devane Architects (RKD), Montessori, playschool, early education
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Architecture in Ireland - vol. 1, no. 8

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 Conference, urban housing, national conference, obair, oibre, commission, public works, Office of Public Works, concert hall, gardaí, Kilkenny Castle, restoration, pier, Ballyglass, Mayo, Westport, Ralph Erskine, Burlington, National Housing Conference, Housing in Small Towns, Gerard O’Callaghan, John Sharrat, Photography as Art, Gallery of Photography, Wellington Quay, Camera Ireland, Marcel Marceau, Aran Islands, Architects’ Dinner, Planning tour of India, Earlsfort Terrace, Security Device, Sentimental Journey, Wood Quay, Dublin Corporation, Civic Offices, Museum, Architecture, UCD, Mattie McDermot, Irish Art and Architecture, Peter Harbison, Homan Potterton, Jeanne Sheehy, Supervisor’s Guide to Rehabilitation and Conversion, Earlsfort Terrace, Hatch Street, Leeson Street, Alexandra College, Patrick Wallace, Archaeologist, National Museum, Kevin Spencer
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Architecture Ireland 289

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #289 focuses on current RIAI news, projects such as the Palestinian Museum, Birzeit, and London Design Week.

architecture review, book review, london design week, museum design, gallery design
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2ha: the journal of suburban design #06

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

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.

typology, suburbia, semi-detached, terraced, housing, Greece, Dom-ino, Adamstown, low-rise, urban design, architecture, a moveable type
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Architecture Ireland 278

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #278 focuses on the theme of ‘a year of architecture - 2015’.

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RIAI Bulletin 2

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 #13

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #13 considers the physical, legal, economic, and symbolic borders which bind our everyday definition of suburban life. Three essays outline the contested nature of this space and the multiple means of separation made for the benefit of some, to the exclusion of others.

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Architecture Ireland 316

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #316 focuses on the theme of ‘value’.

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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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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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Free Market News

Editors: Jeffrey Bolhuis, Jo Anne Butler, Miriam Delaney, Tara Kennedy, Laurence Lord, Orla Murphy.
Book
€ 0.00 

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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House and Home

Editor: Colum O'Riordan.
Book
€ 10.00 

House and Home features over forty original architectural drawings, as well as publications, models and photographs, for residential projects in Ireland. Reflecting the chronological spread of the Irish Architectural Archive’s holdings, the works range from the mid 18th century to the late 20th.

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Thirty-Three Churches

Authors: Sophie Kelliher, David Lawless.
Book
€ 0.00 

Thirty-Three Churches explores the potential of altering Dublin’s existing stock of church buildings to include housing, while still functioning as a place of worship. Published as part of the Housing Unlocked exhibition in 2022.

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Carlow Carbon Futures: vol. 1

Editors: Sean Brunswick, Orla McKeever, Sam Carse, Juliette Bosschaert.
Book
€ 0.00 

Fuelled by love, rage, and imagination, this publication displays the wide variety of student work produced as part of a regional vision for a zero-carbon County Carlow by 2050.

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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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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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