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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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Architectural Survey 1967

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.

Under construction, leisure, clubhouse, health, residential, social housing, showroom, Opera House, church, ecclesiastical, religious, hotel, hospitality, pavilion, factory, estate, sculpture, pitch, apartment, TCD, Trinity College Dublin, pub, bar, renovation, refurbishment, aerial photography, photography
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Architectural Survey 1963

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.

Commerce, Health, Industry, Education, Religion, Housing, Public Service, Recreation, Airport, Church, Filling Station, Showroom, Factory, School, offices, post office, government, bank, drive-in, interiors, remodelled, maisonettes, social housing, new town, urbanism, residential, hospitality, bar, mast, infrastructure, rebuilding, automation, Reconstruction, domestic, Lansdowne Road Dublin, Raheny, Dublin, Seymour Hill, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Television Headquarters, Montrose, RTE, Stillorgan, Airport, Cork, Dublin, Airport lounge, Shannon, Clare, Chief Airports’ Architect, Department of Transport and Power, Filling station, garage, Merrion, Textile factory, factory, Bray, brewery, Dunmarry, Wicklow, Car showroom, Motor showroom, Victoria Street, plastics factory, Balbriggan, school, Kilmacud, extension, offices, post office, government, bank, drive-in, interiors, remodelled, maisonettes, social housing, new town, urbanism, cootehill, Cavan, Tralee, Kerry, Holywood, home, house, private house, Drive-in bank, Raheny, Athy, Kildare, Dublin Corporation, Dublin city council, DCC, Wineshop, Bar, pub, Belfast, Television Mast, Kippure Mountain, Foundation Stone
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Architecture Ireland 299

Editor: Sandra O'Connell.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #299 focuses on architecture in the West of Ireland.

Public Choice Award, RCSI, 26 York Street, Dublin, Henry J Lyons, New School in Town, Westport, SJK Architects, One Microsoft Place, Dublin, RKD Architects, Special Jury Award, No 14 Henrietta Street, Tenement Museum Dublin, Shaffrey Architects, Small Commercial, Workplace, Fallahogey Studio, Kilrea, Northern Ireland, McGarry-Moon Architects Ltd, Big Commercial, Workplace, 1 WML Office, Windmill Lane, Dublin, MOLA Architecture, The Future Award, John Monahan, NOJI Architects, Education, New School in Town, Westport, SJK Architects, RCSI, 26 York Street, Dublin, Henry J Lyons, Health, Northwest Cancer Centre, O’Connell Mahon Architects, Isherwood and Ellis Architects, House, Vaulted House, GKMP Architects, House Extension, St. Catherine’s Dublin, Ryan W. Kennihan Architects, Housing, Clancy Quay, OMP Architects, Lindsay Conservation Architects, Public Space, Port Centre Precinct, Dublin, Darmody Architecture, DLR Red Jetty, A2 Architects, Alan Meredith Studio, International, Thapar University, India, McCullough Mulvin Architects, DPA, New Delhi, Conservation, Restoration, No 14 Henrietta Street, Tenement Museum Dublin, Shaffrey Architects, Sustainability, The Mews, DLRA, Dún Laoghaire Rathdown Architects Department, Culture/Public, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Heneghen peng Architects, Blackwood Associates Architects, Small Fit-Out Project, Meath County Council HQ, Navan, Bucholz McEvoy Architects, Universal Design, Newry Leisure Centre, Kennedy FitzGerlad Architects LLP
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2ha: the journal of suburban design #05

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

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.

language, suburbia, placenames, etymology, Gaeilge, Gaelic, Irish, logainmeacha, Báile Átha Cliath, Corcaigh, Molesworth Street, Fairview, Bailte Fearainn an Oileáin Bhig, landscape, territory, an tír gan ainm
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2ha: the journal of suburban design #08

Editors: Michael K. Hayes, DoCoMoMo Ireland.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #08 considers the legacy of modernism in forming the contemporary suburb. Three essays respond to the functions, scales, and personal expectations that a modern ideology makes possible.

modernism, suburbia, suburban housing, shopping centres, university campus, Stillorgan, Nenagh, UCD Belfield, Firhouse, new town, inter-war, housing, a land of tomorrows
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RIAI Bulletin 7

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.

Ordinary General Meeting, OGM of the RIAI, President’s Report, Honorary Treasurer’s Statement, Presentation of Certificates, Revision of By-Laws, Adoption of new entry forms, President’s inaugural address, Annual Report of Council, Ideas Competition, Hospital Building Programme, Annual Conference, Election of Vice President, Technician Representative on Council, Commonwealth Board of Architectural Education, Housing Conference, Housing Competition, Hospital Programme in the Dublin Area, Maintenance of Historic Buildings, EEC Affairs, Coras Trachtala Design Scholarship, International Symposium, International Ideas Competition, ISAGA Conference, READAPT, Council for 1974, Nelson’s Pillar, 8 Merrion Square, International Union of Architects, National Economic and Social Council, European Architectural Heritage Year, CAA Ottawa Conference, CAA Board of Architectural Education, Brussels Meeting, EEC Liaison Committee, Scrutioneer’s Report, Accreditation Board, Institute Dinner-Dance, parking policy, chief fire officer, Georgian Society Records, EEC Booklet, Europe in the 1980s, Seminar on Electrical Installations, Management and Business Studies, UIA Seminar, Employees Pension Fund, Seminar on Architecture, Urban and Regional Research, Design of Nursery School Buildings, Aspects of Architectural Research, Arbitration Seminar, Design Economics, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, AGM, minutes, meeting minutes, exhibition, competition, symposium, materials, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, CAA, members, Election, report, EEC, housing, Maintenance of Historic Buildings, Institute Dinner-Dance, EEC Affairs, Change in Telephone Numbers, Missing Package, Architect Grade I. Dublin Corporation, Parking Policy in Central Dublin, Chief Fire Officers Association, Western Architects Group, Georgian Society Record, Paintings for Institute Rooms, New Office Block, EEC Booklet “Europe in the 1980’s”, Seminar on Electrical Installations, Management and Business Studies, UIA Seminar, Employees Pension Fund, Election of Vice Presidents, Technician Representative on Council, Accreditation Board, Commonwealth Board of Architectural Education, Housing Conference, Housing Competition, Hospital Programme in the Dublin, Coras Trachtala Design Scholarships, International Symposium, International Ideas Competition, ISAGA Conference, Seminar on Architecture, Urban and Regional Research, Design of Nursery School Buildings, Aspects of Architecture Research, Arbitration Seminar, Design Economics, READAPT, Council for 1974, Board of Architectural Education, Professional Conduct Committee, Public Affairs Committee, Professional Practice Committee, House Committee, Accreditation Board, An Foras Forbartha, RIBA Council, Annual Report of Council, Honorary Treasurer’s Report, Auditors Report, Nelson Pillar Fund, Adoption of Auditors Report and Accounts, New Office Block, 8 Merrion Square, President’s Report, Hospital Building Programme, Annual Conference, International Union of Architects, National Economic and Social Council, European Architectural Heritage Year, CAA Ottawa Conference, CAA Board of Architectural Education, Brussels Meeting, New Pictures, Election of Council for 1974, President’s Address, President Elect in the Chair
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2ha: the journal of suburban design #03

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #03 explores the relationship between suburban morphology and public spaces. Three essays observe existing conditions and propose an architectural response. A fourth and final essay describes a real intervention which deals with conceptions of public and private in suburbia.

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Architectural Survey 1958

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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Architectural Survey 1961

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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RIAI Bulletin 5

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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RIAI Bulletin 54

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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Architectural Survey 1959

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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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.

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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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The Antique Pavement

Author: Derry O'Connell.
Book
€ 4.75 

An illustrated guide to Dublin's street furniture.

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Department of Architecture and Town Planning, DIT Bolton Street, 1992-1994

Editors: Edmund O’Shea, Noel Jonathan, James Horan.
Book
€ 0.00 

The first publication by the Department of Architecture and Town Planning at DIT Bolton Street celebrates the work of both staff and students during the academic years 1992/93 and 1993/94.

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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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Post Industrial

Editor: Miriam Delaney.
Book
€ 0.00 

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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